I think putting a comment there is a good mechanism to track, and probably easier and less intrusive than a built-in site feature. I have no clue if you’re actually getting enough participation in the markets to be useful—it doesn’t look like it at first glance, but perhaps I’m wrong.
It does seem a little weird (and cool, but mostly in the “experiment that may fail, or may work so well we use it elsewhere” way) to have yet another voting mechanism for posts. I kind of like the explicitness of “make a prediction about the future value of this post” compared to “loosely-defined up or down”.
I haven’t noticed it (literally at all—I don’t think I’ve seen it, though I’m perhaps wrong). Based on this comment, I just looked at https://www.lesswrong.com/users/review-bot?from=search_autocomplete and it seems a good idea (and it points me to posts I may have missed—I tend to not look at the homepage, just focusing on recent posts and new comments on posts on https://www.lesswrong.com/allPosts).
I think putting a comment there is a good mechanism to track, and probably easier and less intrusive than a built-in site feature. I have no clue if you’re actually getting enough participation in the markets to be useful—it doesn’t look like it at first glance, but perhaps I’m wrong.
It does seem a little weird (and cool, but mostly in the “experiment that may fail, or may work so well we use it elsewhere” way) to have yet another voting mechanism for posts. I kind of like the explicitness of “make a prediction about the future value of this post” compared to “loosely-defined up or down”.