I think you could mitigate this by establishing a stronger track record of promoting excellent off-LW content that is less controversial (e.g. not a commercial product or doesn’t have as strong or divisive a thesis). E.g. you could highlight the void (and not just the LW x-post of it).
I think this is kind of fair, but also, I don’t super feel like I want LW to draw that harsh lines here. Ideally we would do more curation of off-site content, and pull off-site content more into the conversation, instead of putting up higher barriers we need to pass to do things with external content.
I do also really think we’ve been planning to do a bunch of this for a while, and mostly been bottlenecked on design capacity, and my guess is within a year we’ll have established more of a track record here that will make you feel more comfortable with our judgement. I think it’s reasonable to have at least some distrust here.
Even with the norm having already been broken, I think promoting commercial content still carries an additional cost. (Seems like you might agree, but worth stating explicitly.)
I think this is kind of fair, but also, I don’t super feel like I want LW to draw that harsh lines here. Ideally we would do more curation of off-site content, and pull off-site content more into the conversation, instead of putting up higher barriers we need to pass to do things with external content.
I do also really think we’ve been planning to do a bunch of this for a while, and mostly been bottlenecked on design capacity, and my guess is within a year we’ll have established more of a track record here that will make you feel more comfortable with our judgement. I think it’s reasonable to have at least some distrust here.
Yep, agree.