I think your “prompt similar in length to post idea” is decent, but I think there are more sophisticated measures we could create that are less easily gamifiable, for instance, time spent on LessWrong as the primary browser, multiple edits on LessWrong across days.
I’d worry about false-positives there, since some of the most prolific posters are copying posts from their external blogs, and I frequently write in Google Docs and then copy and paste.
Fair enough. I think you could probably create a carve-out for cross-posting, as I believe cross-posts are a small minority of posts. For GoogleDrive, I am not sure if this would be feasible, but allowing users to export a version history and having a tool to verify proof of work could be a solution.
I posted a top-level shortform to test this theory.
I think your “prompt similar in length to post idea” is decent, but I think there are more sophisticated measures we could create that are less easily gamifiable, for instance, time spent on LessWrong as the primary browser, multiple edits on LessWrong across days.
I’d worry about false-positives there, since some of the most prolific posters are copying posts from their external blogs, and I frequently write in Google Docs and then copy and paste.
Fair enough. I think you could probably create a carve-out for cross-posting, as I believe cross-posts are a small minority of posts. For GoogleDrive, I am not sure if this would be feasible, but allowing users to export a version history and having a tool to verify proof of work could be a solution.