I suggest that a new open thread be opened whenever the current one reaches 500 comments, since that’s the highest number that can be displayed at once, unless a new one would be opened shortly anyway. (Shortly meaning in less than somewhere between a week and three days, depending on how fast these open threads are filling. )
Poll: Vote by voting one option up and the karma balance down.
EDIT: Changing the poll options in light of khafra’s comment, “in favor” → “New thread after 500 comments” (4 votes at the time of the edit); “against” → “no new threads” (0 votes) and adding options for other thresholds.
New thread after 200 comments with an explicit “Please do not make useless comments here; let’s stay focussed on improving LessWrong.com″ in the post proper.
Hm, I was going to propose that the threads continue on the 1st and 15th of each month (the 14th of February, of course), and be titled “Open Thread: Ides of March edition”, “Open Thread: Calends of April edition”, etc.. Because the classical Roman calendar is awesome.
That doesn’t allow for continued scalability in the face of the growth of this site, which is not going to slow down unless the admins try to intentionally slow down the growth.
Or maybe there are cool names for the 1⁄4 and 3⁄4 points of each month; dunno.
The May open thread is at 400+ now. Are we are still in favor of this? New open threads weren’t much good last month since they weren’t promoted. I suspect that will have to change for the new threads to be worthwhile.
I would amend this suggestion to opening a new thread when the current one reaches a number significantly lower than 500. On the last open thread, 19 of 20 comments in the first 500 were replies to other comments.
I suggest that a new open thread be opened whenever the current one reaches 500 comments, since that’s the highest number that can be displayed at once, unless a new one would be opened shortly anyway. (Shortly meaning in less than somewhere between a week and three days, depending on how fast these open threads are filling. )
Poll: Vote by voting one option up and the karma balance down.
EDIT: Changing the poll options in light of khafra’s comment, “in favor” → “New thread after 500 comments” (4 votes at the time of the edit); “against” → “no new threads” (0 votes) and adding options for other thresholds.
New thread after 300 comments.
karma balance
New thread after 200 comments.
karma balance
New thread after 200 comments with an explicit “Please do not make useless comments here; let’s stay focussed on improving LessWrong.com″ in the post proper.
Hm, I was going to propose that the threads continue on the 1st and 15th of each month (the 14th of February, of course), and be titled “Open Thread: Ides of March edition”, “Open Thread: Calends of April edition”, etc.. Because the classical Roman calendar is awesome.
That doesn’t allow for continued scalability in the face of the growth of this site, which is not going to slow down unless the admins try to intentionally slow down the growth.
Or maybe there are cool names for the 1⁄4 and 3⁄4 points of each month; dunno.
The May open thread is at 400+ now. Are we are still in favor of this? New open threads weren’t much good last month since they weren’t promoted. I suspect that will have to change for the new threads to be worthwhile.
New thread after 500 comments.
karma balance
New thread after 400 comments.
karma balance
I would amend this suggestion to opening a new thread when the current one reaches a number significantly lower than 500. On the last open thread, 19 of 20 comments in the first 500 were replies to other comments.
That’s a good convention.
First person that interprets the poll results to be in favor of a new open thread should get some free karma.
New thread after a number of comments significantly greater than 500.
karma balance
No new threads.
karma balance
Apparently at least two people “cheated” in the poll?
Time for that polling feature to be implemented, I suspect.
Karma balance.