Something feels wonky about the way quick takes are reduced features (no title, tags, worse searchability, no filtering) but a ton of the best content ends up there. I think there’s a bunch of something like feeling like you have to have an Official Post and feel vaguely bad if it doesn’t go well as a top level post, but Quick Takes feel emotionally cheap.
idk how to solve this more cleanly, but maybe this datapoint of how it feels to me is useful
if there was a thing which was more fully featured but somehow emotionally cheap that would be neat. I think friction of the top level post publishing process might be a lot of it?
maybe a way to make the datatype of shortform comments closer to posts, and a way for readers to be like “hey make this a post please” and you can easily switch it over.
oh! and the time lag between clicking yes on post and getting frontpaged, especially with the uncertainty of whether it will be, is actually a pretty large chunk of why top level posts feel emotionally weighty. this isn’t as true for EAF. having most of the whether to frontpage decisions done very rapidly would actually be a huge QOL improvement here.
Only if there was a way to convert to post, otherwise you mostly just feel bad for having classified it wrong. But if there was a way, yes, absolutely!
I agree about the long delay in frontpaging, so it’s been one of my side projects to get that time down. I’ve trained a logistic classifier to predict the eventual destination of a post, and currently mods are seeing those predictions when they process posts. If the predictions perform well for awhile, we’ll have them go live and review the classification retrospectively
(not very specific to this decision)
Something feels wonky about the way quick takes are reduced features (no title, tags, worse searchability, no filtering) but a ton of the best content ends up there. I think there’s a bunch of something like feeling like you have to have an Official Post and feel vaguely bad if it doesn’t go well as a top level post, but Quick Takes feel emotionally cheap.
idk how to solve this more cleanly, but maybe this datapoint of how it feels to me is useful
if there was a thing which was more fully featured but somehow emotionally cheap that would be neat. I think friction of the top level post publishing process might be a lot of it?
maybe a way to make the datatype of shortform comments closer to posts, and a way for readers to be like “hey make this a post please” and you can easily switch it over.
oh! and the time lag between clicking yes on post and getting frontpaged, especially with the uncertainty of whether it will be, is actually a pretty large chunk of why top level posts feel emotionally weighty. this isn’t as true for EAF. having most of the whether to frontpage decisions done very rapidly would actually be a huge QOL improvement here.
Perhaps a react for “I wish this idea/sentence/comment was a post” would improve things.
Only if there was a way to convert to post, otherwise you mostly just feel bad for having classified it wrong. But if there was a way, yes, absolutely!
I agree about the long delay in frontpaging, so it’s been one of my side projects to get that time down. I’ve trained a logistic classifier to predict the eventual destination of a post, and currently mods are seeing those predictions when they process posts. If the predictions perform well for awhile, we’ll have them go live and review the classification retrospectively
Oh nice, looking forward to that!