What’s the convention on making a top level post to link to something vs posting in the open thread?
The most recent top level post for linking was TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman and that one at least had a paragraph worth of non-link material. Other links with comparable thematic relevance have been posted in the open threads.
Unless you have nothing better to do with your time, after the first few days the open threads are so full of stuff that they are not worth wading through. That’s one reason I don’t even bother posting my short ideas or questions; if I don’t bother to read the thread, why should I think anybody else is going to read it and and post a worthwhile comment on anything I might post on the thread.
What I use is “don’t make a top-level post if you think it is going to get downvoted”. I’m open to better conventions. I suppose I could have got more karma if I wrote a sentence or two about how this is connected to rationality.
In this case, opening a thread on this seemed like a good idea because the question proposed by Nature does have an obvious correct answer.
If anyone wants to discuss this subject further, you can get some free karma if you start the 2010 meta-thread.
What’s the convention on making a top level post to link to something vs posting in the open thread?
The most recent top level post for linking was TED Talks: Daniel Kahneman and that one at least had a paragraph worth of non-link material. Other links with comparable thematic relevance have been posted in the open threads.
Unless you have nothing better to do with your time, after the first few days the open threads are so full of stuff that they are not worth wading through. That’s one reason I don’t even bother posting my short ideas or questions; if I don’t bother to read the thread, why should I think anybody else is going to read it and and post a worthwhile comment on anything I might post on the thread.
You got it. Current site functionality is broken and is going to get worse as growth continues.
The only way I read the Open Thread is when the comments show up in the recent comments sidebar.
What I use is “don’t make a top-level post if you think it is going to get downvoted”. I’m open to better conventions. I suppose I could have got more karma if I wrote a sentence or two about how this is connected to rationality.
In this case, opening a thread on this seemed like a good idea because the question proposed by Nature does have an obvious correct answer.
If anyone wants to discuss this subject further, you can get some free karma if you start the 2010 meta-thread.