StackExchange has a bunch of badges and gamification and so on; it seems to me like a similar thing should happen here. (There should be a progress bar that gets fuller as you read the sequences!) In particular, we want reading through the sequences to more rewarding than commenting in open threads (which is currently how I would expect a new user to get karma).
This seems much easier to do if sequences are a top-level content type, and also means that anything we do to get people to read one sort of long-form text we can apply to others trivially.
I do think that adding the ability to automatically keep track of what posts you’ve read in a sequence is quite valuable, and encouraging you to continue reading in a sequence as you interact with the page.
One of the big problems I see with many discussion platforms is that they make it very hard for old content to still be actively read by its users, I generally want to improve on that on the new LessWrong. Sequences seem like one way to move in that direction.
I have the same thoughts as with the other top-level content types. Seems to me like index posts + links would get most of the value.
StackExchange has a bunch of badges and gamification and so on; it seems to me like a similar thing should happen here. (There should be a progress bar that gets fuller as you read the sequences!) In particular, we want reading through the sequences to more rewarding than commenting in open threads (which is currently how I would expect a new user to get karma).
This seems much easier to do if sequences are a top-level content type, and also means that anything we do to get people to read one sort of long-form text we can apply to others trivially.
I do think that adding the ability to automatically keep track of what posts you’ve read in a sequence is quite valuable, and encouraging you to continue reading in a sequence as you interact with the page.
One of the big problems I see with many discussion platforms is that they make it very hard for old content to still be actively read by its users, I generally want to improve on that on the new LessWrong. Sequences seem like one way to move in that direction.
I think keeping track of which posts you’ve read would be useful for all posts, not just sequences.