Address the LessWrong audience. A recent trend is more and more people crossposting from their personal blogs, e.g. their Substack or Medium, to LessWrong. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that (we welcome good content!) but many of these posts neither strike us as particularly interesting or insightful, nor demonstrate an interest in LessWrong’s culture/norms or audience (as revealed by a very different style and not really responding to anyone on site).
It doesn’t directly answer your question, agreed, but I reckon a high karma person can get away with a post consisting just of “here’s a link to something I wrote: <url>”, while someone with less reputation probably won’t get traction from that? My guess is that you’re much more likely to have people read it if you write up a couple of paragraphs explaining what it’s about and why people should read it (this should stem from the what it’s about).
This is sort of addressed in this part:
It doesn’t directly answer your question, agreed, but I reckon a high karma person can get away with a post consisting just of “here’s a link to something I wrote: <url>”, while someone with less reputation probably won’t get traction from that? My guess is that you’re much more likely to have people read it if you write up a couple of paragraphs explaining what it’s about and why people should read it (this should stem from the what it’s about).