Moderators will move it to the frontpage if it seems appropriate.
Not a big fan of this, as writers now have zero input on whether their posts make it to the frontpage. I suggest at least letting writers choose one of three options for their posts:
1. Submit for frontpage consideration.
2. Allow on frontpage, but not really promoted.
3. Disallow moving to frontpage.
This way moderators could just sift through the queue of things marked #1, (and the occasional #2 post if they stumble upon it and really love it). And if someone really wants their own writing out of the frontpage, they can choose so with #3.
We’ve definitely thought about things in that vein – alongside things like John Maxwell’s comment on this post about asking for feedback if a post isn’t frontpaged or curated.
The issue is mostly that there’s a lot of potential, similar settings we want to give authors. And a serious problem is how to managed complexity-creep: if you give authors a lot of choices it can feel overwhelming (and, in fact, one of the reasons we removed the “submit to frontpage” option is that ever since LW 1.0, and still on 2.0, people have complained that the choice is confusing, and feels like they’re either sacrificing the visibility of frontpage, or putting something they’re unsure about on frontpage and worry that they’re demanding too much attention for an unpolished idea, and it’s a bit of a nerve-wracking choice for many people)
We’ll eventually give this issue some thought and figure out how to go about it, but it’ll require a fair bit of thinking. Meanwhile, I’m not sure how often the “author didn’t want a post on Frontpage, but the mods put it there” issue will come up.
I guess it makes sense. I was coming to this from the selfish perspective of someone who’s kinda established as a writer, not the perspective of someone submitting their first post to LW with trembling fingers (which was me four years ago).
Not a big fan of this, as writers now have zero input on whether their posts make it to the frontpage. I suggest at least letting writers choose one of three options for their posts:
1. Submit for frontpage consideration.
2. Allow on frontpage, but not really promoted.
3. Disallow moving to frontpage.
This way moderators could just sift through the queue of things marked #1, (and the occasional #2 post if they stumble upon it and really love it). And if someone really wants their own writing out of the frontpage, they can choose so with #3.
We’ve definitely thought about things in that vein – alongside things like John Maxwell’s comment on this post about asking for feedback if a post isn’t frontpaged or curated.
The issue is mostly that there’s a lot of potential, similar settings we want to give authors. And a serious problem is how to managed complexity-creep: if you give authors a lot of choices it can feel overwhelming (and, in fact, one of the reasons we removed the “submit to frontpage” option is that ever since LW 1.0, and still on 2.0, people have complained that the choice is confusing, and feels like they’re either sacrificing the visibility of frontpage, or putting something they’re unsure about on frontpage and worry that they’re demanding too much attention for an unpolished idea, and it’s a bit of a nerve-wracking choice for many people)
We’ll eventually give this issue some thought and figure out how to go about it, but it’ll require a fair bit of thinking. Meanwhile, I’m not sure how often the “author didn’t want a post on Frontpage, but the mods put it there” issue will come up.
I guess it makes sense. I was coming to this from the selfish perspective of someone who’s kinda established as a writer, not the perspective of someone submitting their first post to LW with trembling fingers (which was me four years ago).