Existing contributors keep posting at whatever frequency they’re happy with (which hopefully would be above zero, but that’s up to them).
Also, slowly scour the web for material that wouldn’t be out of place on OB. When you find some, ask the author two or three questions. (a) May we re-post this on OB? (b) Would you like to write an article for OB? (c) [if appropriate] May we re-post some of your other existing material on OB?
If the posting rate drops greatly from what it is now, have more open
threads. (One a week, on a regular schedule?) Be (cautiously) on the lookout for opportunities to say “Would you like to turn that into an OB post?”.
I’d strongly not suggest
Anything that would broaden the focus of OB much. (It already strays a little further from its notional core topic than would be my ideal.)
Voting.
Continuing Robin Hanson’s quirk of deleting as many words from the title as is possible without rendering it completely unintelligible. (Or, sometimes, one more than that.) :-)
Those subjunctives in 1-3 of course assume that there are people willing to do that much work. I don’t know whether there are, not least because I haven’t seriously tried to estimate how much work it is.
I’d suggest:
Existing contributors keep posting at whatever frequency they’re happy with (which hopefully would be above zero, but that’s up to them).
Also, slowly scour the web for material that wouldn’t be out of place on OB. When you find some, ask the author two or three questions. (a) May we re-post this on OB? (b) Would you like to write an article for OB? (c) [if appropriate] May we re-post some of your other existing material on OB?
If the posting rate drops greatly from what it is now, have more open threads. (One a week, on a regular schedule?) Be (cautiously) on the lookout for opportunities to say “Would you like to turn that into an OB post?”.
I’d strongly not suggest
Anything that would broaden the focus of OB much. (It already strays a little further from its notional core topic than would be my ideal.)
Voting.
Continuing Robin Hanson’s quirk of deleting as many words from the title as is possible without rendering it completely unintelligible. (Or, sometimes, one more than that.) :-)
Those subjunctives in 1-3 of course assume that there are people willing to do that much work. I don’t know whether there are, not least because I haven’t seriously tried to estimate how much work it is.