A few observations triggered the LessWrong team focusing on moderation now. The initial trigger was our observations of new users signing up plus how the distribution of quality of new submissions had worsened (I found myself downvoting many more posts), but some analytics helps drive home the picture:
(Note that not every week does LessWrong get linked in the Times...but then again....maybe it roughly does from this point onwards.)
LessWrong data from Google Analytics: traffic has doubled Year-on-Year
A few observations triggered the LessWrong team focusing on moderation now. The initial trigger was our observations of new users signing up plus how the distribution of quality of new submissions had worsened (I found myself downvoting many more posts), but some analytics helps drive home the picture:
(Note that not every week does LessWrong get linked in the Times...but then again....maybe it roughly does from this point onwards.)
LessWrong data from Google Analytics: traffic has doubled Year-on-Year