“New posts can only be submitted to your personal blog. Moderators will move it to the frontpage if it seems appropriate.”—What’s the reasoning behind this? Were too many low quality posts being submitted to the frontpage?
“”Personal Blogposts” tab is now labelled “All Posts”, and now contains meta posts.”—really happy to see this change as removing a level makes it less confusing.
We’re hitting the point now where I do think we’ve been getting a big too many low (or medium) quality frontpage posts. And while this point is debatable, we’d _definitely_ hit that point soon if we hadn’t already.
I’d also seen a fair number of posts skirting the line between “fits frontpage norms” and “doesn’t”. Removing a post from the frontpage is a bit more stressful and/or awkward than adding one to the frontpage
People have complained that the decision of whether to put something on frontpage or personal blogs is kind of stressful – it’s a weird choice to force people to make, and a similar issue had led to a bit of paralysis on old lesswrong (i.e. is my post worth of main or just discussion?)
I wonder if it would be useful to give users a checkbox like “If this post is not selected for the frontpage, please tell me why” (in the same way scientific journals will tell you why your submission was rejected).
Yeah I was actually just thinking today about a “feedback appreciated” option (I can imagine versions of this that are appropriate for “feedback from anyone” and “feedback from admins”)
I don’t know that we can promise to give feedback to everyone all the time, but it does seem like something that’d be valuable as often as is practical (esp for people who opt into it)
“New posts can only be submitted to your personal blog. Moderators will move it to the frontpage if it seems appropriate.”—What’s the reasoning behind this? Were too many low quality posts being submitted to the frontpage?
“”Personal Blogposts” tab is now labelled “All Posts”, and now contains meta posts.”—really happy to see this change as removing a level makes it less confusing.
A couple reasons:
We’re hitting the point now where I do think we’ve been getting a big too many low (or medium) quality frontpage posts. And while this point is debatable, we’d _definitely_ hit that point soon if we hadn’t already.
I’d also seen a fair number of posts skirting the line between “fits frontpage norms” and “doesn’t”. Removing a post from the frontpage is a bit more stressful and/or awkward than adding one to the frontpage
People have complained that the decision of whether to put something on frontpage or personal blogs is kind of stressful – it’s a weird choice to force people to make, and a similar issue had led to a bit of paralysis on old lesswrong (i.e. is my post worth of main or just discussion?)
I wonder if it would be useful to give users a checkbox like “If this post is not selected for the frontpage, please tell me why” (in the same way scientific journals will tell you why your submission was rejected).
Yeah I was actually just thinking today about a “feedback appreciated” option (I can imagine versions of this that are appropriate for “feedback from anyone” and “feedback from admins”)
I don’t know that we can promise to give feedback to everyone all the time, but it does seem like something that’d be valuable as often as is practical (esp for people who opt into it)