If nothing else, I would say “If the author wouldn’t have been allowed to copy it into a less wrong post and put it on the front page, it shouldn’t be linked from the front page”. I also strongly dislike the current implementation of link posts, and would prefer that one has to click through into the comments; as such, I’d rather you just make a normal post, and make it short with a link. Perhaps describing what you’re getting out of it.
I’d say I’d like to keep the ratio of linkposts low, maybe 1 in 5 at most. So frequency would be determined by ratio of non-linkposts.
In terms of age, I think it doesn’t matter so much as making sure that there are no reposts whatsoever.
one could use plagiarism detection techniques on the content of urls to suggest discussions that might be about the same content. it’s kind of overkill but sounds fun to build
I’m not sure. I agree that it’s not obvious how to prevent it. I think I value it despite not knowing exactly how to implement it. Ideally, “this has already been posted” would be part of the link post creation process. That only works when it’s the same url, though.
If nothing else, I would say “If the author wouldn’t have been allowed to copy it into a less wrong post and put it on the front page, it shouldn’t be linked from the front page”. I also strongly dislike the current implementation of link posts, and would prefer that one has to click through into the comments; as such, I’d rather you just make a normal post, and make it short with a link. Perhaps describing what you’re getting out of it.
I’d say I’d like to keep the ratio of linkposts low, maybe 1 in 5 at most. So frequency would be determined by ratio of non-linkposts.
In terms of age, I think it doesn’t matter so much as making sure that there are no reposts whatsoever.
I generally agree.
How do we achieve “no reposts”? It seems pretty easy to repost by accident.
We do check for whether the link of a post is the same as he one of a previous post, but if the link is even slightly different that doesn’t work.
one could use plagiarism detection techniques on the content of urls to suggest discussions that might be about the same content. it’s kind of overkill but sounds fun to build
I’m not sure. I agree that it’s not obvious how to prevent it. I think I value it despite not knowing exactly how to implement it. Ideally, “this has already been posted” would be part of the link post creation process. That only works when it’s the same url, though.