About a year ago, there was a Post Request Thread that morphed into a Pitch-Your-Post thread where people mentioned topics they were thinking of posting on, and people upvoted the ones they wanted to see in discussion (and asked some clarifying questions ahead of time).
It’s the reason I wrote my post on tips for public speaking (I wouldn’t have bothered crossposting and slightly reworking if there hadn’t been an indication of interest).
Technically, the Open Thread can serve this purpose, but not everyone checks it that often, and isn’t reading in the mindset of “Do I want a post on it.” If you’d like to try to draw posts out of the woodwork, go ahead an post a new Post Request Thread.
Making people write good articles about their favorite topic seems much better than moving Open Thread content to Discussion for the sake of having more content in Discussion… which is how the idea of this article feels to me; sorry if it wasn’t meant that way.
I’d like to see a nice article about something interesting, even if it’s not about rationality. Just write it without bullshit, and it’s already better than half of the internet. Just like it is cool to talk with your fellow rationalists, even if you don’t talk about rationality all the time.
Also, I feel that having less content in Discussion is not a problem per se. I mean, it’s not our goal to expand the content until it fills everyone’s free time. Less time spent on LW could mean more time spent doing something offline. I don’t mind not having ten new articles every day, because then I would barely have time to do something else.
Okay, maybe… those of us who read LW for a long time and didn’t post anything, should precommit to post at least one article in the following month, about something we care about. That includes me; so I will post something about mathematical education in my country; there are a few things which could be copied elsewhere.
The only way to have good content on LW is to write good content. Eliezer wrote hundreds of articles, I haven’t written one yet (I don’t count meetup announcements, nor the programming thread, although I could try that one again), so, yeah, it seems obvious whose turn is it now. Anyone who cares about LW content can consider this their own opportunity to “become stronger”.
About a year ago, there was a Post Request Thread that morphed into a Pitch-Your-Post thread where people mentioned topics they were thinking of posting on, and people upvoted the ones they wanted to see in discussion (and asked some clarifying questions ahead of time).
It’s the reason I wrote my post on tips for public speaking (I wouldn’t have bothered crossposting and slightly reworking if there hadn’t been an indication of interest).
Technically, the Open Thread can serve this purpose, but not everyone checks it that often, and isn’t reading in the mindset of “Do I want a post on it.” If you’d like to try to draw posts out of the woodwork, go ahead an post a new Post Request Thread.
I like this!
Making people write good articles about their favorite topic seems much better than moving Open Thread content to Discussion for the sake of having more content in Discussion… which is how the idea of this article feels to me; sorry if it wasn’t meant that way.
I’d like to see a nice article about something interesting, even if it’s not about rationality. Just write it without bullshit, and it’s already better than half of the internet. Just like it is cool to talk with your fellow rationalists, even if you don’t talk about rationality all the time.
Also, I feel that having less content in Discussion is not a problem per se. I mean, it’s not our goal to expand the content until it fills everyone’s free time. Less time spent on LW could mean more time spent doing something offline. I don’t mind not having ten new articles every day, because then I would barely have time to do something else.
Okay, maybe… those of us who read LW for a long time and didn’t post anything, should precommit to post at least one article in the following month, about something we care about. That includes me; so I will post something about mathematical education in my country; there are a few things which could be copied elsewhere.
The only way to have good content on LW is to write good content. Eliezer wrote hundreds of articles, I haven’t written one yet (I don’t count meetup announcements, nor the programming thread, although I could try that one again), so, yeah, it seems obvious whose turn is it now. Anyone who cares about LW content can consider this their own opportunity to “become stronger”.