Someone posted an open thread two weeks ago and my subjective impression is that it disappeared from view almost immediately, other than generating a few comments I saw in Recent Comments that seemed to be, if you’ll pardon the bluntness, two people making basic mistakes. Starting from Community, right now, and repeatedly clicking “Load More,” I got to something that was posted three months ago and still can’t see this open thread. (I forgot to count how many times I clicked “Load More” but it’s enough times that I got bored and stopped, twice.) I’m not even sure if it’s visible from Community at all. If it is, the magical algorithm that sorts Community hates it.
If we want open threads to work they might need to be stickied, at least at first.
This is tangential, but re: clicking “Load More” a bunch of times: GreaterWrong has an archive browser where you can view posts by year, by month, and by day, as far back as you like.
Someone posted an open thread two weeks ago and my subjective impression is that it disappeared from view almost immediately, other than generating a few comments I saw in Recent Comments that seemed to be, if you’ll pardon the bluntness, two people making basic mistakes. Starting from Community, right now, and repeatedly clicking “Load More,” I got to something that was posted three months ago and still can’t see this open thread. (I forgot to count how many times I clicked “Load More” but it’s enough times that I got bored and stopped, twice.) I’m not even sure if it’s visible from Community at all. If it is, the magical algorithm that sorts Community hates it.
If we want open threads to work they might need to be stickied, at least at first.
This is tangential, but re: clicking “Load More” a bunch of times: GreaterWrong has an archive browser where you can view posts by year, by month, and by day, as far back as you like.