Suggestion: a new “Welcome to Less Wrong!” thread for introductions and so forth. (Which should be sticky’d, at least for a while.)
This sort of thing is good, but probably shouldn’t be its own post. This old welcome thread got two thousand comments (the most of any post in all of Less Wrong history), and other welcome threads have also been popular; it seems to me that this would be a good way to ease some more people into contributing.
Yep, I basically agree. I will run it by the team on Monday and see what people think, but I’ve been thinking that we should have a welcome thread as well, and stickying it only seems sensible.
“Stickied” feels a bit like the wrong abstraction to me here.
I want newcomers to easily be able to find such a thread. I probably wouldn’t want to see it all the time. There’s only so many threads that can realistically be stickied without overwhelming people with choices.
I think this sort of thing makes me want to have threads that appear until they’ve been engaged with or toggled off. (Maybe make this true of stickied threads in general: give people the option to click ‘cool I’ve seen this and don’t want to engage with it anymore’)
This kind of thing is exactly what (possibly collapsible and/or hideable) sidebars are for!
I think this sort of thing makes me want to have threads that appear until they’ve been engaged with or toggled off. (Maybe make this true of stickied threads in general: give people the option to click ‘cool I’ve seen this and don’t want to engage with it anymore’)
Suggestion: a new “Welcome to Less Wrong!” thread for introductions and so forth. (Which should be sticky’d, at least for a while.)
This sort of thing is good, but probably shouldn’t be its own post. This old welcome thread got two thousand comments (the most of any post in all of Less Wrong history), and other welcome threads have also been popular; it seems to me that this would be a good way to ease some more people into contributing.
Yep, I basically agree. I will run it by the team on Monday and see what people think, but I’ve been thinking that we should have a welcome thread as well, and stickying it only seems sensible.
“Stickied” feels a bit like the wrong abstraction to me here.
I want newcomers to easily be able to find such a thread. I probably wouldn’t want to see it all the time. There’s only so many threads that can realistically be stickied without overwhelming people with choices.
I think this sort of thing makes me want to have threads that appear until they’ve been engaged with or toggled off. (Maybe make this true of stickied threads in general: give people the option to click ‘cool I’ve seen this and don’t want to engage with it anymore’)
This kind of thing is exactly what (possibly collapsible and/or hideable) sidebars are for!
This seems like a good idea to me.