Ah, yes. Looks like I misunderstood you. I agree that we should have some additional link to the original blogpost. I think it should be formatted slightly differently than a normal link post, since having “Link” in the title signals to users that they will have to leave the site to read the content, and that the content in the post is separate from the original article (i.e. has commentary on the linked article, instead of being an exact copy). We just haven’t gotten around to making the UI for that. For now crossposting is indicated by the “SSC” tag visible on the frontpage.
(Re schelling point: I do think I was a bit unclear here. What I meant was “a natural schelling point for discussion of the SSC post, for people on LW, separate from SSC”. I’ve generally found that there are just too many comments on SSC, with not enough tools to sort and filter them, with the average quality not being high enough, and with people being less familiar with the other material on LessWrong, so that it seems good to have a separate place to discuss the same posts with a different set of people and with different technology applied to them.)
(There isn’t really much of a difference between the GW and LW2 implementation from the context switch perspective. Both require you to go to a different site to read the content, which seems quite hard to avoid, and is really the primary issue I am concerned with here. I like GWs implementation of making the link accessible from the frontpage, though that doesn’t really have much to do with my worries about context-switching.)
I think it should be formatted slightly differently than a normal link post, since having “Link” in the title signals to users that they will have to leave the site to read the content.
Not that I necessarily disagree with this, but just want to note that there are already many posts on LW which are linkposts with text in them (in fact, I think this may actually be the majority of all linkposts; of the last 11 frontpage linkposts, for example, 6 contain text, while 5 are link-only posts); so what we take a “normal link post” to be—and consequently, what is the appropriate UI design for linkposts—should probably take that into account.
Yeah, I think the important distinction is “here is text that is commentary on the provided link” and “here is the text of the link”. I think these two are the most important to distinguish from one another.
Ah, yes. Looks like I misunderstood you. I agree that we should have some additional link to the original blogpost. I think it should be formatted slightly differently than a normal link post, since having “Link” in the title signals to users that they will have to leave the site to read the content, and that the content in the post is separate from the original article (i.e. has commentary on the linked article, instead of being an exact copy). We just haven’t gotten around to making the UI for that. For now crossposting is indicated by the “SSC” tag visible on the frontpage.
(Re schelling point: I do think I was a bit unclear here. What I meant was “a natural schelling point for discussion of the SSC post, for people on LW, separate from SSC”. I’ve generally found that there are just too many comments on SSC, with not enough tools to sort and filter them, with the average quality not being high enough, and with people being less familiar with the other material on LessWrong, so that it seems good to have a separate place to discuss the same posts with a different set of people and with different technology applied to them.)
(There isn’t really much of a difference between the GW and LW2 implementation from the context switch perspective. Both require you to go to a different site to read the content, which seems quite hard to avoid, and is really the primary issue I am concerned with here. I like GWs implementation of making the link accessible from the frontpage, though that doesn’t really have much to do with my worries about context-switching.)
Not that I necessarily disagree with this, but just want to note that there are already many posts on LW which are linkposts with text in them (in fact, I think this may actually be the majority of all linkposts; of the last 11 frontpage linkposts, for example, 6 contain text, while 5 are link-only posts); so what we take a “normal link post” to be—and consequently, what is the appropriate UI design for linkposts—should probably take that into account.
Yeah, I think the important distinction is “here is text that is commentary on the provided link” and “here is the text of the link”. I think these two are the most important to distinguish from one another.
Agreed. Note, though, that even with that caveat, linkposts seem to be at least one-third text-containing.