People can write personal posts on LW that don’t meet Frontpage standards. For example, plenty of rationalists use LW as their personal blog in one way or another and those posts don’t make it to the frontpage but they also end up fitting in here.
Should I not tick the “moderators may promote to frontpage” by default? I was assuming the moderators to have a clearer idea of what they want for the frontpage than I do.
FYI I was the one who frontpaged this, and didn’t put all that much thought into it. (The “niche topic” consideration is kinda vague, and a bit more ad-hoc-judgment-call-y than other frontpage considerations)
I definitely encourage people to leave ‘moderators may promote to frontpage’ unless they have a personal preference for non-front-pageness, and let it be our problem to navigate the various frontpage judgment calls.
Gordon’s argument implicitly agreed with mtaran that the post wasn’t frontpage material. I think it does meet the requirements in Ruby’s personal vs frontpage post but I’m also sympathetic to the idea that weird programming isn’t really topical for LW.
On the other hand, I don’t use the frontpage and have no skin in this game.
People can write personal posts on LW that don’t meet Frontpage standards. For example, plenty of rationalists use LW as their personal blog in one way or another and those posts don’t make it to the frontpage but they also end up fitting in here.
Note that this post was frontpaged.
Should I not tick the “moderators may promote to frontpage” by default? I was assuming the moderators to have a clearer idea of what they want for the frontpage than I do.
FYI I was the one who frontpaged this, and didn’t put all that much thought into it. (The “niche topic” consideration is kinda vague, and a bit more ad-hoc-judgment-call-y than other frontpage considerations)
I definitely encourage people to leave ‘moderators may promote to frontpage’ unless they have a personal preference for non-front-pageness, and let it be our problem to navigate the various frontpage judgment calls.
Gordon’s argument implicitly agreed with mtaran that the post wasn’t frontpage material. I think it does meet the requirements in Ruby’s personal vs frontpage post but I’m also sympathetic to the idea that weird programming isn’t really topical for LW.
On the other hand, I don’t use the frontpage and have no skin in this game.