Probably not suitable for launch, but given that the epistemic seriousness of the users is the most important “feature” for me and some other people I’ve spoken to, I wonder if some kind of “user badges” thing might be helpful, especially if it influences the weight that upvotes and downvotes from those users have. E.g. one badge could be “has read >60% of the sequences, as ‘verified’ by one of the 150 people the LW admins trust to verify such a thing about someone” and “verified superforecaster” and probably some other things I’m not immediately thinking of.
I don’t think we should emphasise this too much as many people would have read a lot of the sequences, but not had it actually recorded. (Apparently they have some data for different user accounts, but I have read a lot of articles whilst not logged in)
Probably not suitable for launch, but given that the epistemic seriousness of the users is the most important “feature” for me and some other people I’ve spoken to, I wonder if some kind of “user badges” thing might be helpful, especially if it influences the weight that upvotes and downvotes from those users have. E.g. one badge could be “has read >60% of the sequences, as ‘verified’ by one of the 150 people the LW admins trust to verify such a thing about someone” and “verified superforecaster” and probably some other things I’m not immediately thinking of.
I don’t think we should emphasise this too much as many people would have read a lot of the sequences, but not had it actually recorded. (Apparently they have some data for different user accounts, but I have read a lot of articles whilst not logged in)