I’d like a way to signal my willingness to expend some amount of effort to help with things that need add’l people, in a high-confidence environment, so people know that they can actually count on my support, if that makes sense?
I don’t think signing up to helping projects without knowing anything about the project beforehand leads to quality engagement with the project.
You might have people relatively blindly commit to upvoting reddit posts but the resulting impact of that kind of coordination is relatively low.
I don’t think signing up to helping projects without knowing anything about the project beforehand leads to quality engagement with the project.
This may well be true. I guess my question, then, is something like “how do we set up a system such that people can easily broadcast information on projects/things to those who care?”
My qualm with facebook for notices of this sort is that it’s not necessarily easy for others to see what’s happening, and posts are fairly transient, given its temporal nature.
If you have a task that you care to get done then posting it to Slack(goals of LessWrong)/Facebook/LW Discussion works for reaching people.
If it turns out that you have projects that you want to promote where the present system isn’t enough, that would be the time to build a new system.
Using the existing channels is much easier than convincing people to adopt a new channel. If you want a new channel then a google group mailing list seems optimal for reaching people.
I don’t think signing up to helping projects without knowing anything about the project beforehand leads to quality engagement with the project.
You might have people relatively blindly commit to upvoting reddit posts but the resulting impact of that kind of coordination is relatively low.
There used to be a MIRI volunteer project that seems to run out of steam. http://lesswrong.com/lw/2g7/miri_call_for_volunteers/ It might be worthwhile to look into what happened with it.
This may well be true. I guess my question, then, is something like “how do we set up a system such that people can easily broadcast information on projects/things to those who care?”
My qualm with facebook for notices of this sort is that it’s not necessarily easy for others to see what’s happening, and posts are fairly transient, given its temporal nature.
If you have a task that you care to get done then posting it to Slack(goals of LessWrong)/Facebook/LW Discussion works for reaching people. If it turns out that you have projects that you want to promote where the present system isn’t enough, that would be the time to build a new system.
Using the existing channels is much easier than convincing people to adopt a new channel. If you want a new channel then a google group mailing list seems optimal for reaching people.