Many people use open threads to share links to various articles. Perhaps it is media threads that should be more frequent? E.g. Maybe we should have Written Media Threads and Visual Media Threads? Or perhaps open threads should have topics? For example, Open Thread for asking for advice, Science Open Thread, Social Science Open Thread, Futurism and Transhumanism Open Thread, Artificial Intelligence Open Thread, Open Thread to share links to various blog posts, long form articles, Open Thread that is similar to Reddit’s Best Of (people would link to insightful comments from outside of LessWrong), etc. Some special threads, e.g. Group Rationality Diary are already like specialized open threads.
Having open threads every day would clutter Discussion and it would make finding anything very hard. “Open Thread” is a very non-informative title.
I think that one of the reasons why too few people comment on old threads is that LessWrong post sorting algorithm, being based on Reddit, doesn’t move the threads that have recent comments to the top. At the moment the only way to notice that the old thread is now active (unless someone replied to your comment) is to notice its activity in “Recent Comments” section.
Interesting. I like the idea to have specialized OTs for different subjects. We could combine this with zedzed’s suggestion and have a sub for “Open Threads” or something similar. Then we could omit the redundant “Open Thread” from the post titles, and just have them say the subject and the date.
Many people use open threads to share links to various articles. Perhaps it is media threads that should be more frequent? E.g. Maybe we should have Written Media Threads and Visual Media Threads? Or perhaps open threads should have topics? For example, Open Thread for asking for advice, Science Open Thread, Social Science Open Thread, Futurism and Transhumanism Open Thread, Artificial Intelligence Open Thread, Open Thread to share links to various blog posts, long form articles, Open Thread that is similar to Reddit’s Best Of (people would link to insightful comments from outside of LessWrong), etc. Some special threads, e.g. Group Rationality Diary are already like specialized open threads.
Having open threads every day would clutter Discussion and it would make finding anything very hard. “Open Thread” is a very non-informative title.
I think that one of the reasons why too few people comment on old threads is that LessWrong post sorting algorithm, being based on Reddit, doesn’t move the threads that have recent comments to the top. At the moment the only way to notice that the old thread is now active (unless someone replied to your comment) is to notice its activity in “Recent Comments” section.
Interesting. I like the idea to have specialized OTs for different subjects. We could combine this with zedzed’s suggestion and have a sub for “Open Threads” or something similar. Then we could omit the redundant “Open Thread” from the post titles, and just have them say the subject and the date.
Something like this was tried and it didn’t really work..
Additionally, I generally don’t see a real reason to make the OTs even more regular.