(I agree-reacted to the statement, because I think polling is often a very reasonable default activity. I am not upvoting the post, especially not for a goal of turning the frontpage post list into a space to signal the positions of LW, rather than for interesting and novel arguments and/or well written explanations.)
(Added: To be clear Liron did not ask for upvotes; but the post talked about what gets upvoted on frontpage, and then posted the poll claim, which seemed suggestive to me of a standard terrible failure mode for discussion spaces; so I want to disclaim upvoting in order to make the frontpage signal positions to low-engagement LW readers.)
Ah thx I didn’t know about that. A poll in the top-level post seems like a potentially useful feature. At least in special cases like right now where it seems like many/most people hold an important shared position, and building mutual knowledge about that seems valuable, a poll can do that. I’ll try a comment poll. Edit: here it is
(I agree-reacted to the statement, because I think polling is often a very reasonable default activity. I am not upvoting the post, especially not for a goal of turning the frontpage post list into a space to signal the positions of LW, rather than for interesting and novel arguments and/or well written explanations.)
(Added: To be clear Liron did not ask for upvotes; but the post talked about what gets upvoted on frontpage, and then posted the poll claim, which seemed suggestive to me of a standard terrible failure mode for discussion spaces; so I want to disclaim upvoting in order to make the frontpage signal positions to low-engagement LW readers.)
Fair enough. I didn’t find a LW poll feature and I dunno how to better achieve mutual knowledge about LW’s level of support for the book.
You can just ask people to use reacts! I’ve done a few posts like that (example) though I used hidden backend features to do a more complicated setup.
Ah thx I didn’t know about that. A poll in the top-level post seems like a potentially useful feature. At least in special cases like right now where it seems like many/most people hold an important shared position, and building mutual knowledge about that seems valuable, a poll can do that. I’ll try a comment poll. Edit: here it is