The main thing holding me back from posting on Less Wrong, and I really doubt that I’m alone in this, is that it feels sort of mutually exclusive with posting on my own blog. That blog has to exist for the things I want to post that would be too far offtopic for LW, but then if I want it to not be dead, that consumes my entire posting volume.
The best solution I’ve come up with for this is linkposts a la Reddit. And we could even make them automatic!
That is, take the current Recent on Rationality Blogs sidebar. Either leave it as a sidebar, turn it into a subreddit, or mix it in with the appropriate reddits. Make each link votable up or down. The resulting karma is displayed on the link and provided to the associated LW account.
We could probably also set it up so that automatic blog posts are either opt-in (watch this rss feed, anything with the #lw tag becomes a link-post) or opt-out (watch this rss feed, anything that doesn’t have the #no-lw tag becomes a link-post).
There’s a bit of a wrinkle how to deal with non-community links; my suspicion is that it’d be relatively easy to check if a link is to an account in the blog database, and associate it with the owner if so (someone linking to a SSC article gives Yvain the karma, not them) and the link-poster if it’s to something else (a relevant NYT article, say).
Hassle, two comment threads to follow, probably bad for search rankings.
I would guess if the version on the external blog is posted first and the post on LW links to the original blog the blog’s SEO doesn’t suffer that strongly.
The main thing holding me back from posting on Less Wrong, and I really doubt that I’m alone in this, is that it feels sort of mutually exclusive with posting on my own blog. That blog has to exist for the things I want to post that would be too far offtopic for LW, but then if I want it to not be dead, that consumes my entire posting volume.
The best solution I’ve come up with for this is linkposts a la Reddit. And we could even make them automatic!
That is, take the current Recent on Rationality Blogs sidebar. Either leave it as a sidebar, turn it into a subreddit, or mix it in with the appropriate reddits. Make each link votable up or down. The resulting karma is displayed on the link and provided to the associated LW account.
We could probably also set it up so that automatic blog posts are either opt-in (watch this rss feed, anything with the #lw tag becomes a link-post) or opt-out (watch this rss feed, anything that doesn’t have the #no-lw tag becomes a link-post).
There’s a bit of a wrinkle how to deal with non-community links; my suspicion is that it’d be relatively easy to check if a link is to an account in the blog database, and associate it with the owner if so (someone linking to a SSC article gives Yvain the karma, not them) and the link-poster if it’s to something else (a relevant NYT article, say).
does something prevent you from cross posting?
previously it was suggested to post here; then in 6 months delete the text; include a link to the text on your blog. (or just leave it)
Hassle, two comment threads to follow, probably bad for search rankings.
More hassle.
or leave it up.
I would guess if the version on the external blog is posted first and the post on LW links to the original blog the blog’s SEO doesn’t suffer that strongly.