It’s not clear to me what category this post should fall under on that basis, but I’d suggest the heuristic that anything posted to Main which retains a positive score after a few days might as well stay there.
If you think that because it’s short, I STRONGLY disagree—value added is not proportional to length.
If you think that because it’s an exercise, I disagree, although that’s a stronger case. We happen to be doing original research in exercise form, and evidence shows exercises work better than academic articles.
If you think that for some other reason, or something like the above but not quite, I’d love to hear it!
Insufficient value add by the OP. Given that, insufficient expected value add in the comments. (I think that the Textbooks List and Procedural Knowledge Gaps lists belong in Main because the collection of knowledge by commenters is valuable enough, even though the OP is not a huge value add on its own. )
If I wanted to not just learn that lesson, but reinforce that sort of reasoning in the Less Wrong community (in a welcoming way, naturally), what would you suggest I do? And feel free to PM, as I agree about limiting discussion about where to put threads inside threads.
I can understand that intuition, but I’d like to see people err more on the side of putting slightly subpar things on Main, as opposed to erring on the side of putting slightly superpar things on Discussion. Main is underused, and I think metadiscussion about where to categorize things has become a bit too common.
Belongs in Discussion IMO
Can you explain in 15 words what belongs to Main and what to Discussion? :D
Main: topics that are interesting to most LW readers, AND are notably worth reading
Discussion: topics that are interesting to most LW readers, OR are notably worth reading for some readers
Open Thread: everything else
It’s not clear to me what category this post should fall under on that basis, but I’d suggest the heuristic that anything posted to Main which retains a positive score after a few days might as well stay there.
Many posts with positive scores are ejected from main.
Could you break down that intuition? Why?
If you think that because it’s short, I STRONGLY disagree—value added is not proportional to length.
If you think that because it’s an exercise, I disagree, although that’s a stronger case. We happen to be doing original research in exercise form, and evidence shows exercises work better than academic articles.
If you think that for some other reason, or something like the above but not quite, I’d love to hear it!
Insufficient value add by the OP. Given that, insufficient expected value add in the comments. (I think that the Textbooks List and Procedural Knowledge Gaps lists belong in Main because the collection of knowledge by commenters is valuable enough, even though the OP is not a huge value add on its own. )
What a great reason!
If I wanted to not just learn that lesson, but reinforce that sort of reasoning in the Less Wrong community (in a welcoming way, naturally), what would you suggest I do? And feel free to PM, as I agree about limiting discussion about where to put threads inside threads.
I can understand that intuition, but I’d like to see people err more on the side of putting slightly subpar things on Main, as opposed to erring on the side of putting slightly superpar things on Discussion. Main is underused, and I think metadiscussion about where to categorize things has become a bit too common.
Why? Rationality Quotes threads are in Main too (though I suspect they are here more because of tradition than anything else).
You can read my reply here for a rough sketch of my viewpoint. To be honest, I’m not very interested in this bit of meta and am likely tapping out.