And yet, of all those who downvoted, not one took the time to actually provide that valid answer.
The post currently sits at −2 according to my latest refresh. It seems other readers agree—we don’t want to see a meta submission like this at the top-level.
It would be confusing if the change notice was hidden away in a mostly ignored thread.
Agreed. LW needs a blog or something to list recent updates and give heads-ups about these kinds of things. Reddit does that, and it works well. This post neither belongs in the new/promoted feed, nor in the meta-thread (despite what I appeared to suggest in my original comment) - the former is inelegant and the latter impractical.
And yet, of all those who downvoted, not one took the time to actually provide that valid answer.
It would seem that they took the question as a rhetorical normative claim, for which downvotes are an appropriate response.
LW needs a blog or something to list recent updates and give heads-ups about these kinds of things. Reddit does that, and it works well. This post neither belongs in the new/promoted feed, nor in the meta-thread (despite what I appeared to suggest in my original comment) - the former is inelegant and the latter impractical.
That would be a nice feature to have if it was suitably unobtrusive. But given how frequent such updates would be I don’t mind them appearing as posts.
And yet, of all those who downvoted, not one took the time to actually provide that valid answer.
The post currently sits at −2 according to my latest refresh. It seems other readers agree—we don’t want to see a meta submission like this at the top-level.
Agreed. LW needs a blog or something to list recent updates and give heads-ups about these kinds of things. Reddit does that, and it works well. This post neither belongs in the new/promoted feed, nor in the meta-thread (despite what I appeared to suggest in my original comment) - the former is inelegant and the latter impractical.
It would seem that they took the question as a rhetorical normative claim, for which downvotes are an appropriate response.
That would be a nice feature to have if it was suitably unobtrusive. But given how frequent such updates would be I don’t mind them appearing as posts.