I think this is a great analysis, and I like the specific proposals. I got involved in LW only about a year ago, and while I read through pretty much all of the Sequences, I felt a bit left out that I couldn’t participate while they were originally unfolding. A “book of the month” program, or else some kind of coordinated discussion of specific topics, could go a long way toward allowing that kind of ongoing participation.
I also really like the proposed re-categorization of posts. I’m never quite sure what’s supposed to go where, and it seems like a lot of the most important stuff (like this post) end up in Discussion. To state the problem more generally, there seems to be a natural divide in thing-space between “procedural posts” (announcements, meet-ups, quotes, etc.) and “substantive posts” (basically everything else). But we presently group “high-level” substantive posts along with procedural posts, rather than with other substantive posts, which seems awkward. Seems better to first make the basic distinction between procedure and substance, and then find a way to identify the high-level substantive posts within that category.
On the subject of coordinated action, who actually has the authority to make this kind of change, and what sort of process would that entail? I don’t really know much about the current LW org chart, but these sorts of concerns seem to be coming up with increasing frequency, so I’d like to figure out how we can actually do something about it.
I think this is a great analysis, and I like the specific proposals. I got involved in LW only about a year ago, and while I read through pretty much all of the Sequences, I felt a bit left out that I couldn’t participate while they were originally unfolding. A “book of the month” program, or else some kind of coordinated discussion of specific topics, could go a long way toward allowing that kind of ongoing participation.
I also really like the proposed re-categorization of posts. I’m never quite sure what’s supposed to go where, and it seems like a lot of the most important stuff (like this post) end up in Discussion. To state the problem more generally, there seems to be a natural divide in thing-space between “procedural posts” (announcements, meet-ups, quotes, etc.) and “substantive posts” (basically everything else). But we presently group “high-level” substantive posts along with procedural posts, rather than with other substantive posts, which seems awkward. Seems better to first make the basic distinction between procedure and substance, and then find a way to identify the high-level substantive posts within that category.
On the subject of coordinated action, who actually has the authority to make this kind of change, and what sort of process would that entail? I don’t really know much about the current LW org chart, but these sorts of concerns seem to be coming up with increasing frequency, so I’d like to figure out how we can actually do something about it.