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.
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.