I don’t autopost; I manually crosspost. I intend to continue doing this in the future because I suspect I will keep writing posts that *would* be appropriate for LW if I changed X, Y, or Z, and manually crossposting makes it easier to change X, Y, and Z. For instance, I added a content warning in my latest post; in the future I will remove sex jokes and impolite words for genitals, since there seems to be a broad consensus against those things; I have at least one post I’m drafting where the Thing of Things version will contain politics where the LW version will contain “political implications left as an exercise for the reader.”
Can I request that when you do change things, you link to the Thing of Things version with a brief summary of the differences? I think I’d usually prefer to read that version, but I’d usually see the version here sooner.
This isn’t like a big deal, so feel free to ignore.
When I actually announce on Thing of Things that I’ve been crossposting (I want to wait to the end of the open beta), I will ask about people’s link preferences. Writing up a summary of changes sounds like a lot of work and pretty boring to most readers.
To clarify, all I’d be requesting is like “also on my blog, with more swears and politics”. (Even “with minor changes” would signal to me that I should read it there; but “more swears and politics” would tell me that even if I hadn’t seen this thread.)
I don’t autopost; I manually crosspost. I intend to continue doing this in the future because I suspect I will keep writing posts that *would* be appropriate for LW if I changed X, Y, or Z, and manually crossposting makes it easier to change X, Y, and Z. For instance, I added a content warning in my latest post; in the future I will remove sex jokes and impolite words for genitals, since there seems to be a broad consensus against those things; I have at least one post I’m drafting where the Thing of Things version will contain politics where the LW version will contain “political implications left as an exercise for the reader.”
Can I request that when you do change things, you link to the Thing of Things version with a brief summary of the differences? I think I’d usually prefer to read that version, but I’d usually see the version here sooner.
This isn’t like a big deal, so feel free to ignore.
When I actually announce on Thing of Things that I’ve been crossposting (I want to wait to the end of the open beta), I will ask about people’s link preferences. Writing up a summary of changes sounds like a lot of work and pretty boring to most readers.
That seems a good strategy, yes.
To clarify, all I’d be requesting is like “also on my blog, with more swears and politics”. (Even “with minor changes” would signal to me that I should read it there; but “more swears and politics” would tell me that even if I hadn’t seen this thread.)