I have previously suggested “Vote up/down” to “More like this/Less like this”, to generally positive reception.
parent/children → above/below? There should be something suitable.
When I put the word “rationality” into Google, the first hit is Wikipedia, the second is “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” and the third is LessWrong. How much of LW’s low traffic on the word can be attributed to people just not searching on the word much? Edit: This was an artifact of searching logged-in—not logged in, it’s not even on the front page.
Bending one’s site out of shape for an idiot Googlebot sorta sucks, really. But on my own sites, Google supplies 97% of the search engine traffic. So I suppose one must do what one has to if traffic is a goal.
RationalWiki doesn’t give a hoot about SEO, so has an accordingly poor showing and terrible pagerank. RW’s hit articles tend to be stuff that it covers well that doesn’t rate a Wikipedia article, e.g.Poe’s law, Project Blue Beam, European Union Times. The whole answer to succeeding as a wiki is “provide something Wikipedia can’t or won’t.”
When I put the word “rationality” into Google, the first hit is Wikipedia, the second is “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” and the third is LessWrong. How much of LW’s low traffic on the word can be attributed to people just not searching on the word much?
Are you signed into google or not? When you’re signed in, it tailors the results to your search history.
[joke] Change the names of the structural elements to keywords we consider important! For instance,
“Vote up / down” → “rationality up / down”
“points” → “paperclips”
“permalink” → “timeless commenting decision”
“password” → “the teacher’s password”
“username” → “code name in the Bayesian conspiracy”
EDIT: You know, I actually like the “points” → “paperclips” change for real.
+1 to points → paperclips :-D
I have previously suggested “Vote up/down” to “More like this/Less like this”, to generally positive reception.
parent/children → above/below? There should be something suitable.
When I put the word “rationality” into Google, the first hit is Wikipedia, the second is “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” and the third is LessWrong. How much of LW’s low traffic on the word can be attributed to people just not searching on the word much? Edit: This was an artifact of searching logged-in—not logged in, it’s not even on the front page.
Bending one’s site out of shape for an idiot Googlebot sorta sucks, really. But on my own sites, Google supplies 97% of the search engine traffic. So I suppose one must do what one has to if traffic is a goal.
RationalWiki doesn’t give a hoot about SEO, so has an accordingly poor showing and terrible pagerank. RW’s hit articles tend to be stuff that it covers well that doesn’t rate a Wikipedia article, e.g. Poe’s law, Project Blue Beam, European Union Times. The whole answer to succeeding as a wiki is “provide something Wikipedia can’t or won’t.”
Are you signed into google or not? When you’re signed in, it tailors the results to your search history.
D’oh! Well spotted—not logged in, LessWrong is not on the front page.
On the plus side, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is the fourth response to Rationality, even signed out.
And Yudkowski.net is result #6