It looks like a lot of people are easily exceeding the 500-word minimum. Maybe that was insufficiently ambitious (given that no one has dropped out yet?), and Inkhaven 2 should bump to 750 or 1000 words. (Note that LLMs are already good at giving feedback and asking questions on essays and suggesting parts to expand on, so adding another 500 words is often quite easy—as long as you are willing to do the work!)
I think most of the value is in the publishing, rather than the amount of content. I think probably the word minimum should be less. If I look through world spirit sock puppet (IMO a great blog), the majority of the posts seem to be <500 words. It’s possible that it’s just too hard to police quality, or at least effort, with shorter posts. In that case, maybe it’s worth increasing the proof of work.
Yep, we ask people to submit wordcount with every post that they submit.
Here’s the frequency of posts at each length.
Here it is in three simple buckets
It looks like a lot of people are easily exceeding the 500-word minimum. Maybe that was insufficiently ambitious (given that no one has dropped out yet?), and Inkhaven 2 should bump to 750 or 1000 words. (Note that LLMs are already good at giving feedback and asking questions on essays and suggesting parts to expand on, so adding another 500 words is often quite easy—as long as you are willing to do the work!)
I think most of the value is in the publishing, rather than the amount of content. I think probably the word minimum should be less. If I look through world spirit sock puppet (IMO a great blog), the majority of the posts seem to be <500 words. It’s possible that it’s just too hard to police quality, or at least effort, with shorter posts. In that case, maybe it’s worth increasing the proof of work.
I would rather post 1000 words voluntarily, but stop at 800 words if it feels like I have concluded the topic for the day.
We might recommend the participants to aim at 1000 wordy, but not put it as a hard limit.
or have a weekly minimum that’s greater than the daily minimum x7