More generally, I’d recommend that each category has a name that bluntly states what the filter does (e.g. if it only uses karma as filter say “high karma”).
More generally, I’d recommend that each category has a name that bluntly states what the filter does (e.g. if it only uses karma as filter say “high karma”).
I agree with this in principle, the trick is that the a) the filter here is “the mods have judged this to fit into a loose cluster of explanations/explorations-that-don’t-hinge-on-recent-events”, and we specifically don’t want the connotation to be “and therefore this is better” (in an overall abstract sense), nor is the intent for it to be a quality signal so much as a genre-signal.
So “moderator’s pick” or “favored” or even “original ideas” doesn’t really capture it. “Mostly ideas” sort of gets closest of the above suggestions, mostly by virtue of communicating that the filter is vague.
Name suggestions: “approved”, “favored”, “Moderators’ pick”, “high [information] entropy”, “original ideas”, “informative”, “mostly ideas”.
More generally, I’d recommend that each category has a name that bluntly states what the filter does (e.g. if it only uses karma as filter say “high karma”).
I agree with this in principle, the trick is that the a) the filter here is “the mods have judged this to fit into a loose cluster of explanations/explorations-that-don’t-hinge-on-recent-events”, and we specifically don’t want the connotation to be “and therefore this is better” (in an overall abstract sense), nor is the intent for it to be a quality signal so much as a genre-signal.
So “moderator’s pick” or “favored” or even “original ideas” doesn’t really capture it. “Mostly ideas” sort of gets closest of the above suggestions, mostly by virtue of communicating that the filter is vague.
Is it even possible to avoid for a curated selection to be deemed better? Maybe only if it fails horribly at what it set out to do, but otherwise?
I strongly second Michaël’s recommendation — of any place, the front page of Less Wrong is where things should be clear.