Seems to me like the idea D will create navigation and visibility problem in Discussion. It will be like a Facebook wall.
And if the Discussion page will be full of quickly-scrolling two-sentence “articles”, nobody will write anything decent there anymore.
If we have less content, then we simply have less content. Either accept it, or write some content you would like to see. But increasing the number of articles artificially, by converting each Open Thread comment into a separate article, that is a lost purpose.
Open threads don’t have to be banished. But cluttering discussion is hardly a problem. I can still see threads from Mid May on the first page; these threads already have dramatically lower activity (any thread has dramatically lower activity after a few days). It’s a long way to the point where thread discovery is a problem.
Somehow I feel bad about “articles with drastically lower entry requirements”. If something is really, really… how to say it… for example if it’s just a hyperlink to some article without providing a summary, or an idea expressed in one sentence and then “Discuss!”… uhm, just no. That’s for a Facebook status, or a chat. If someone is lazy to write, then perhaps they just shouldn’t write; maybe it’s better to have less content, than lazily written content.
However, I wouldn’t object against having a separate “Open Forum” category (as in: “Main”, “Discussion”, “Open Forum”), moving all Open Threads into the Open Forum, and perhaps even creating a new Open Thread every day (preferably automatically by a bot).
I would also encourage users with upvoted (say, karma about 10 or more) top-level Open Thread comments to rewrite those comments as “Discussion” (potentially maybe even moved to “Main”) articles. I mean, they already received a positive feedback from the community, so there is no need to fear. But I mean rewriting, not merely reposting. I don’t want to encourage sloppy posting, only to encourage users. (To prevent the “maybe I will spend an hour polishing the article, but probably no one will like it anyway, so why bother” thinking.)
Seems to me like the idea D will create navigation and visibility problem in Discussion. It will be like a Facebook wall.
And if the Discussion page will be full of quickly-scrolling two-sentence “articles”, nobody will write anything decent there anymore.
If we have less content, then we simply have less content. Either accept it, or write some content you would like to see. But increasing the number of articles artificially, by converting each Open Thread comment into a separate article, that is a lost purpose.
Open threads don’t have to be banished. But cluttering discussion is hardly a problem. I can still see threads from Mid May on the first page; these threads already have dramatically lower activity (any thread has dramatically lower activity after a few days). It’s a long way to the point where thread discovery is a problem.
Maybe have a third place to post “articles” with drastically lower entry requirements? Something like an open forum next to main and discussion.
Somehow I feel bad about “articles with drastically lower entry requirements”. If something is really, really… how to say it… for example if it’s just a hyperlink to some article without providing a summary, or an idea expressed in one sentence and then “Discuss!”… uhm, just no. That’s for a Facebook status, or a chat. If someone is lazy to write, then perhaps they just shouldn’t write; maybe it’s better to have less content, than lazily written content.
However, I wouldn’t object against having a separate “Open Forum” category (as in: “Main”, “Discussion”, “Open Forum”), moving all Open Threads into the Open Forum, and perhaps even creating a new Open Thread every day (preferably automatically by a bot).
I would also encourage users with upvoted (say, karma about 10 or more) top-level Open Thread comments to rewrite those comments as “Discussion” (potentially maybe even moved to “Main”) articles. I mean, they already received a positive feedback from the community, so there is no need to fear. But I mean rewriting, not merely reposting. I don’t want to encourage sloppy posting, only to encourage users. (To prevent the “maybe I will spend an hour polishing the article, but probably no one will like it anyway, so why bother” thinking.)