My understanding is that Cat Pictures aren’t much related to the “upvotes/downvotes don’t count for Personal Blogs” thing, and if Quality is a consideration it’s only a secondary one. There’s a few common use cases we expect to be relevant to Personal Blogs, such as:
discussing politics with rational people (we don’t want this on the front page but it’s okay for the blogs, in places that get a bit less visibility)
making calls to action, especially relating to rationality community culture
talking about less fleshed out ideas in a low key setting.
All of these are things that intersect a bit weirdly with karma. Politics and calls to action incentivize people to upvote or downvote based on tribal or coalitional affiliation, which isn’t necessarily about epistemic clarity.
The problem of “not enough people will read the personal blogs to start getting them upvoted” is definitely an issue (I’m not sure how to solve it), but it’s going to need to get solved in some scalable fashion, and I think trying to disincentivize people from starting personal blogs isn’t the best tradeoff to make to solve it.
My understanding is that Cat Pictures aren’t much related to the “upvotes/downvotes don’t count for Personal Blogs” thing, and if Quality is a consideration it’s only a secondary one. There’s a few common use cases we expect to be relevant to Personal Blogs, such as:
discussing politics with rational people (we don’t want this on the front page but it’s okay for the blogs, in places that get a bit less visibility)
making calls to action, especially relating to rationality community culture
talking about less fleshed out ideas in a low key setting.
All of these are things that intersect a bit weirdly with karma. Politics and calls to action incentivize people to upvote or downvote based on tribal or coalitional affiliation, which isn’t necessarily about epistemic clarity.
The problem of “not enough people will read the personal blogs to start getting them upvoted” is definitely an issue (I’m not sure how to solve it), but it’s going to need to get solved in some scalable fashion, and I think trying to disincentivize people from starting personal blogs isn’t the best tradeoff to make to solve it.