I remember seeing that post and really wanting to look into it further, but the dense, novel math notation made me postpone that until I forgot about it. (We also had a new baby recently, and I’m working on responding to reviewer comments on a paper I’m trying to publish, so that wasn’t the only reason.) It could certainly have helped me grasp the gist of their work if someone had posted a comment at the time summarizing what they got out of it.
What if posts could be flagged by authors and/or the community as needing feedback or discussion? This could work something like pinning to the front page, except that the “pinnedness” could decay over time to make room for other posts while getting periodically refreshed.
I don’t know what algorithm is used for sorting front page posts (some combination of recency of the post and its comments and the karma score it has received?), but you could an extra term that has this “jump and decay” behavior. Perhaps the more community members flag it for discussion and feedback, the more often its front-page status gets refreshed. And the more comments it receives, the more the coefficient on this term goes to 0.
Thus, its position in the sorted queue of posts would become like that of a typical post once it has actually gotten feedback (or the author has indicated that the feedback is satisfactory). But it would keep coming back to the community’s attention automatically until then.
I remember seeing that post and really wanting to look into it further, but the dense, novel math notation made me postpone that until I forgot about it. (We also had a new baby recently, and I’m working on responding to reviewer comments on a paper I’m trying to publish, so that wasn’t the only reason.) It could certainly have helped me grasp the gist of their work if someone had posted a comment at the time summarizing what they got out of it.
What if posts could be flagged by authors and/or the community as needing feedback or discussion? This could work something like pinning to the front page, except that the “pinnedness” could decay over time to make room for other posts while getting periodically refreshed.
I don’t know what algorithm is used for sorting front page posts (some combination of recency of the post and its comments and the karma score it has received?), but you could an extra term that has this “jump and decay” behavior. Perhaps the more community members flag it for discussion and feedback, the more often its front-page status gets refreshed. And the more comments it receives, the more the coefficient on this term goes to 0.
Thus, its position in the sorted queue of posts would become like that of a typical post once it has actually gotten feedback (or the author has indicated that the feedback is satisfactory). But it would keep coming back to the community’s attention automatically until then.