Note: this wasn’t the official 2020 survey (the team has some plans for a more comprehensive survey, later in the year. Originally we were going to do it around April, but covid struck and changed a lot of our priorities)
It’s not super obvious to me what the frontpage status of the post should have been (for sure, it’d be easier to run ad-hoc surveys if we frontpaged them all, but it’s not obviously best to encourage that. The current frontpage norms are based, in part, on a model that it’s really tempting to do community meta discussion all the time, but that actually for the site to be healthy people should focus more on object level intellectual progress, and deliberately pushes a bit in that direction)
It’s really disappointing there were only 61 respondents, compared to e.g. the 2016 survey with over 3000 respondents.
Note: this wasn’t the official 2020 survey (the team has some plans for a more comprehensive survey, later in the year. Originally we were going to do it around April, but covid struck and changed a lot of our priorities)
It’s not super obvious to me what the frontpage status of the post should have been (for sure, it’d be easier to run ad-hoc surveys if we frontpaged them all, but it’s not obviously best to encourage that. The current frontpage norms are based, in part, on a model that it’s really tempting to do community meta discussion all the time, but that actually for the site to be healthy people should focus more on object level intellectual progress, and deliberately pushes a bit in that direction)
I somehow missed the survey, and I read LW almost daily. I guess we need some mechanism for increased visibility of things like this.
That’s probably because the moderators decided to keep the post a personal blogspot for some reason.