Honestly, I’d rather have Main and Discussion together in one spot and things promoted to the front page from there. My reasoning for this is a couple of things—A. I rarely check main. If I want to read something technical, I’m going to read the sequences anyway. B. Division upon division in places to post probably would lead to atrophy and death of certain sections. For example, I wouldn’t expect many people to check a “Pre-Main” thread, largely due to bystander effect.
When I answered the poll I think I said I was unsure in favor of new divisions, but I think I’ve talked myself out of that. The description of Discussion really just needs to be “everything else”.
ETA: What might be helpful is for it to become more of a norm that people use tags like [LINK] in the title when posting in discussion.You could have tags like [OFF TOPIC] or [PRE-MAIN] too
I don’t check main because it’s harder to check main. You have to go to lesswrong.com, then click main, then click new (if you don’t just wanted the promoted ones, which you could access from the main page most of the time anyway).
I don’t think everything should go in Discussion because I think there’s some value in the 10x Karma that main articles get (and the associated higher level they are judged at). But I think clicking “main” on the main page should take you to all top level posts, not just promoted ones. Promoted articles are already promoted on lesswrong.com, they don’t need to be promoted twice.
Not a bad idea. I only check main once in a while. I use discussion to discuss things I am interested in, main carries too much gravitas to be interesting in that regard.
Honestly, I’d rather have Main and Discussion together in one spot and things promoted to the front page from there. My reasoning for this is a couple of things—A. I rarely check main. If I want to read something technical, I’m going to read the sequences anyway. B. Division upon division in places to post probably would lead to atrophy and death of certain sections. For example, I wouldn’t expect many people to check a “Pre-Main” thread, largely due to bystander effect.
When I answered the poll I think I said I was unsure in favor of new divisions, but I think I’ve talked myself out of that. The description of Discussion really just needs to be “everything else”.
ETA: What might be helpful is for it to become more of a norm that people use tags like [LINK] in the title when posting in discussion.You could have tags like [OFF TOPIC] or [PRE-MAIN] too
I don’t check main because it’s harder to check main. You have to go to lesswrong.com, then click main, then click new (if you don’t just wanted the promoted ones, which you could access from the main page most of the time anyway).
I don’t think everything should go in Discussion because I think there’s some value in the 10x Karma that main articles get (and the associated higher level they are judged at). But I think clicking “main” on the main page should take you to all top level posts, not just promoted ones. Promoted articles are already promoted on lesswrong.com, they don’t need to be promoted twice.
Yeah, I agree completely. That’s another reason I don’t check it.
ETA: And there isn’t a list with just the titles like there is for Discussion. Makes Discussion a lot easier to browse.
This link gives a list of all posts, Main and Discussion:
http://lesswrong.com/r/all/recentposts
It’s very handy.
Wow, thanks. That’s great.
How do you reach that without getting linked directly?
I got to it by looking at the form of other URLs and guessing. Indeed, Google informs me that that URL has never been seen on the net before.
Well I’m going to bookmark it to be the site I always go to when I go to LW...
ETA: Click on the Recent Posts on the sidebar. It’s apparently clickable.
N.B. That’s only posts in Main.
It’s only the posts of whichever section you are on when you click it. There’s http://lesswrong.com/recentposts for the main section and http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/recentposts for the discussion section.
Not a bad idea. I only check main once in a while. I use discussion to discuss things I am interested in, main carries too much gravitas to be interesting in that regard.