I might organize a wiki page for some of the repositories myself if people think this is a good idea but no one else feels like doing it
This wiki page seems relevant, but it’s currently more for pointing the current place to put things than a repository of everything that’s ever been put there.
I think sticky threads or automatically recurring threads are good implementations.
I understand coding resources are limited, but I might as well mention that my dream implementation of this would be rather different from the normal LW implementation of posts. For example, intro posts are awesome to have- but it’s not obvious to me that it’s good to have them clustered in a normal post. There’s a limit to the number of comments that can be displayed at once, which has a few odd effects (in particular, it might be wise to discourage discussion on introductory threads). Similarly, the LW user display threads are currently not set up well to show comments oldest-first, which is where many introductory comments will be. (Suppose someone feels strongly about being referred to with particular pronouns, and mentions that in their introductory comment. Most people won’t see it that way; that’s something they would probably be better off advertising on their user page, but it’s not obvious to them that’s possible.)
But we have the code support already for user pages from the wiki. If you have a wiki account but nothing on your user page yet, it’s ugly and blank (like mine is right now). It might be worthwhile to push people from writing introductory posts to writing their user pages. (One downside of this approach is that it’s not currently possible to upvote users or their profiles, whereas many newcomers now get a positive karma score just for saying hi.)
With rationality quotes, it seems like it would work better as a tagged database than as collections of monthly comments. Again, karma support seems like a must-have, as it makes it easier to sort comments by quality, as well as rewarding finding good comments. But it seems like instead of monthly threads stretching back to 2009 (and a handful from earlier), it would be neat to have them all in one place (like the ongoing collections of Best of Rationality Quotes), and more than that, to be able to look at them by focus rather than just by karma score.
This wiki page seems relevant, but it’s currently more for pointing the current place to put things than a repository of everything that’s ever been put there.
I think sticky threads or automatically recurring threads are good implementations.
I understand coding resources are limited, but I might as well mention that my dream implementation of this would be rather different from the normal LW implementation of posts. For example, intro posts are awesome to have- but it’s not obvious to me that it’s good to have them clustered in a normal post. There’s a limit to the number of comments that can be displayed at once, which has a few odd effects (in particular, it might be wise to discourage discussion on introductory threads). Similarly, the LW user display threads are currently not set up well to show comments oldest-first, which is where many introductory comments will be. (Suppose someone feels strongly about being referred to with particular pronouns, and mentions that in their introductory comment. Most people won’t see it that way; that’s something they would probably be better off advertising on their user page, but it’s not obvious to them that’s possible.)
But we have the code support already for user pages from the wiki. If you have a wiki account but nothing on your user page yet, it’s ugly and blank (like mine is right now). It might be worthwhile to push people from writing introductory posts to writing their user pages. (One downside of this approach is that it’s not currently possible to upvote users or their profiles, whereas many newcomers now get a positive karma score just for saying hi.)
With rationality quotes, it seems like it would work better as a tagged database than as collections of monthly comments. Again, karma support seems like a must-have, as it makes it easier to sort comments by quality, as well as rewarding finding good comments. But it seems like instead of monthly threads stretching back to 2009 (and a handful from earlier), it would be neat to have them all in one place (like the ongoing collections of Best of Rationality Quotes), and more than that, to be able to look at them by focus rather than just by karma score.