What I was thinking about doing was something like Scott Alexander “comment highlight” posts, where it might make sense to specifically say “here were particularly good shortform comments from the past week”. Mostly haven’t done it because it was a fair bit of activation effort.
There was a trend on the old LW that people were pushed to post in Discussion instead of Main and later in Open Threads instead of discussion because they wanted lower expected effort.
Adding features like curated shortform might mean more content that could be posted as proper post instead ends up in shortform.
It seems to me like it would make more sense if people who write valuable shortform content that’s well received then write a proper post about the content then if the shortform version gets more exposure.
Will Lesswrong at some point have curated shortform posts? Furthermore, is such a feature desirable? I will leave this question here for discussion.
What I was thinking about doing was something like Scott Alexander “comment highlight” posts, where it might make sense to specifically say “here were particularly good shortform comments from the past week”. Mostly haven’t done it because it was a fair bit of activation effort.
There was a trend on the old LW that people were pushed to post in Discussion instead of Main and later in Open Threads instead of discussion because they wanted lower expected effort.
Adding features like curated shortform might mean more content that could be posted as proper post instead ends up in shortform.
It seems to me like it would make more sense if people who write valuable shortform content that’s well received then write a proper post about the content then if the shortform version gets more exposure.