My perception is that it’s not exactly about goodness, it’s more like, a post must conform to certain standards*. In the same way that a scientific paper must meet certain standards to get published in a peer-reviewed journal, but a non-publishable paper could still present novel and valuable scientific findings.
*and, even though I’ve been reading LW since 2012, I’m still not clear on what those standards are or how to meet them
Yeah. I think you can post anything as a personal post, and the gods of LW may take a fancy to them, as is their preview, and put them on the front page.
I had a very wrong model of what quick takes are. I was thinking like, not good enough for a post, put it in a quick take.
My perception is that it’s not exactly about goodness, it’s more like, a post must conform to certain standards*. In the same way that a scientific paper must meet certain standards to get published in a peer-reviewed journal, but a non-publishable paper could still present novel and valuable scientific findings.
*and, even though I’ve been reading LW since 2012, I’m still not clear on what those standards are or how to meet them
Yeah. I think you can post anything as a personal post, and the gods of LW may take a fancy to them, as is their preview, and put them on the front page.
It sounds like you’re talking about the standards for frontpaging rather than quick take vs post?
I’m talking about my perception of the standards for a quick take vs. post. I don’t know if my perception is accurate
Not good enough for a post, good enough for front page, apparently. :D
What did you update your model to?