I wasn’t sure how successful such an initiative would be in getting more content produced, but that part exceeded my expectations.
One thing to consider for future contests: Insofar as people post close to the deadline, there can be a comparatively big influx of content at once, which might cause some posts to get buried. Looking at the book review tag, there are quite a few reviews with anemic scores and hardly any comments. Is that because they’re low-quality / a bad fit for LW, or because they got overlooked?
It would be a shame if the part about incentivizing more content creation succeeds, only for some good stuff to slip through the cracks and never see any reactions. And especially if contest rewards are partly based on karma scores, it’s particularly important to ensure that each review is seen by enough people so it has a chance to take off.
Thanks again for organizing this!
I wasn’t sure how successful such an initiative would be in getting more content produced, but that part exceeded my expectations.
One thing to consider for future contests: Insofar as people post close to the deadline, there can be a comparatively big influx of content at once, which might cause some posts to get buried. Looking at the book review tag, there are quite a few reviews with anemic scores and hardly any comments. Is that because they’re low-quality / a bad fit for LW, or because they got overlooked?
It would be a shame if the part about incentivizing more content creation succeeds, only for some good stuff to slip through the cracks and never see any reactions. And especially if contest rewards are partly based on karma scores, it’s particularly important to ensure that each review is seen by enough people so it has a chance to take off.
My impression so far is that the karma scores correlate very well with quality, though I agree it’s something to watch out for.