As usual, the incentive for voicing disagreement is higher than the incentive for voicing agreement, so to balance that I just want to say that personally I liked the rituals (but I’m also open to experimenting with other formats).
On a different note, how do you know how many people opened the email?
I found the postmortem over-focuses on what went wrong or was sub-optimal. I would like to point out that I found the event fun, despite being a lurker with no code.
FYI, I didn’t even know the event was going on. This post was my first time hearing that anything had happened this year. I access LW via a shortcut to the All Posts page, and I never saw the modified front page.
I didn’t even notice last year when the front page actually went down, since all the other pages still worked.
I would also add: if there was a user configuration in the settings that was off by default, and could be turned in to volunteer for a job that could destroy the world, but then somehow there’s a way to avoid this, I’d probably turn the setting on so that I could help not destroy the world.
However, the time I was selected in previous years, I didn’t check my email that day, or even actually that week, and it was only much later that I realized that my moment for glory in refraining from action had been accomplished… by irresponsibly slacking off <3
Not only would I turn the setting on if there was a setting… but I might even check my email that day so that I could do the right thing on purpose!
Seems worth noting that you probably can’t track everyone, so some people may have opened it but been uncounted. If (as I expect) they work through embedding images, then someone with images disabled by default wouldn’t be counted unless they specifically enabled them. (I am such a person, but didn’t get an email this year.)
As usual, the incentive for voicing disagreement is higher than the incentive for voicing agreement, so to balance that I just want to say that personally I liked the rituals (but I’m also open to experimenting with other formats).
On a different note, how do you know how many people opened the email?
I found the postmortem over-focuses on what went wrong or was sub-optimal. I would like to point out that I found the event fun, despite being a lurker with no code.
FYI, I didn’t even know the event was going on. This post was my first time hearing that anything had happened this year. I access LW via a shortcut to the All Posts page, and I never saw the modified front page.
I didn’t even notice last year when the front page actually went down, since all the other pages still worked.
I would also add: if there was a user configuration in the settings that was off by default, and could be turned in to volunteer for a job that could destroy the world, but then somehow there’s a way to avoid this, I’d probably turn the setting on so that I could help not destroy the world.
However, the time I was selected in previous years, I didn’t check my email that day, or even actually that week, and it was only much later that I realized that my moment for glory in refraining from action had been accomplished… by irresponsibly slacking off <3
Not only would I turn the setting on if there was a setting… but I might even check my email that day so that I could do the right thing on purpose!
The mail merge software (YAMM) that we used gives you the option to track this. And we’re evil and used it. :/
Seems worth noting that you probably can’t track everyone, so some people may have opened it but been uncounted. If (as I expect) they work through embedding images, then someone with images disabled by default wouldn’t be counted unless they specifically enabled them. (I am such a person, but didn’t get an email this year.)