(Only speaking as a participant, not as a moderator. The rules are currently very clear that you can downvote and upvote whatever you like.)
I do think I would prefer it if you would not downvote personal blogposts if they feel off-topic to you. You can always just uncheck the “show personal blogposts” checkbox on the frontpage. I care a lot about people being able to just explore ideas freely on the site, and you can always downvote them if we do move them to frontpage.
I think that’s fair—I don’t want to discourage exploration of ideas not yet ready for publication, but I _AM_ concerned that people other than me may take the leniency as permission to discuss overtly political topics here. I think I’ll stop voting on non-promoted posts and comments for a bit and see if my worries get worse or better.
Is there a way to tell whether a post is promoted or not, on the page that contains the voting buttons?
We just added the ability to easily identify a post as frontpage or personal on our test-server today. Should be out by early next week.
You can currently tell by hovering over a post in a list of posts, or by looking at the moderation guidelines at the bottom of the post (which will always include “frontpage moderation guidelines” if it’s a frontpage post).
(Only speaking as a participant, not as a moderator. The rules are currently very clear that you can downvote and upvote whatever you like.)
I do think I would prefer it if you would not downvote personal blogposts if they feel off-topic to you. You can always just uncheck the “show personal blogposts” checkbox on the frontpage. I care a lot about people being able to just explore ideas freely on the site, and you can always downvote them if we do move them to frontpage.
I think that’s fair—I don’t want to discourage exploration of ideas not yet ready for publication, but I _AM_ concerned that people other than me may take the leniency as permission to discuss overtly political topics here. I think I’ll stop voting on non-promoted posts and comments for a bit and see if my worries get worse or better.
Is there a way to tell whether a post is promoted or not, on the page that contains the voting buttons?
Note for any GreaterWrong users who might have a similar question:
When viewing a post, you’ll see an icon under the post name, at the left. It indicates what kind of post it is, e.g.:
(In order, those are: personal, frontpage, curated, Meta, Alignment Forum.)
We just added the ability to easily identify a post as frontpage or personal on our test-server today. Should be out by early next week.
You can currently tell by hovering over a post in a list of posts, or by looking at the moderation guidelines at the bottom of the post (which will always include “frontpage moderation guidelines” if it’s a frontpage post).