As one of the people who worked on the IABIED banner: I do feel like it’s spending down a fairly scarce resource of “LW being a place with ads” (and some adjacent things). I also agree, somewhat contra habryka, that overly endorsing object level ideas is somewhat wonky. We do it with curation, but we also put some effort into using that to promote a variety of ideas of different types, and we sometimes curate things we don’t fully agree with if we think it’s well argued, nd I think it comes across we are more trying to promote “idea quality” there more than a particular agenda.
Counterbalancing that: I dunno man I think this is just really fucking important, and worth spending down some points on.
(I tend to be more hesitant than the rest of the LW team about doing advertisingy things, if I were in charge we would have done somewhat less heavy promotion of LessOnline)
As one of the people who worked on the IABIED banner: I do feel like it’s spending down a fairly scarce resource of “LW being a place with ads” (and some adjacent things). I also agree, somewhat contra habryka, that overly endorsing object level ideas is somewhat wonky. We do it with curation, but we also put some effort into using that to promote a variety of ideas of different types, and we sometimes curate things we don’t fully agree with if we think it’s well argued, nd I think it comes across we are more trying to promote “idea quality” there more than a particular agenda.
Counterbalancing that: I dunno man I think this is just really fucking important, and worth spending down some points on.
(I tend to be more hesitant than the rest of the LW team about doing advertisingy things, if I were in charge we would have done somewhat less heavy promotion of LessOnline)