Realizing this’d be dissatisfying to quanticle, but does this issue remain for you if both the multiple-choice and the freeform are independently optional? (i.e. if the choices don’t feel right you can just include the freeform thing?)
The issues you’re pointing at are real, but I think there’s some important benefit to communicating more clearly what the norms of the site are. (I think this may be valuable both because newcomers won’t understand it at all, and because there’s enough variation in how people currently use epistemic status that it’s not even that clear how to parse the most common cases for oldtimers. Creating default standards makes it so most people don’t reinvent wheels with slightly different wording that people have to parse)
Nod.
Realizing this’d be dissatisfying to quanticle, but does this issue remain for you if both the multiple-choice and the freeform are independently optional? (i.e. if the choices don’t feel right you can just include the freeform thing?)
The issues you’re pointing at are real, but I think there’s some important benefit to communicating more clearly what the norms of the site are. (I think this may be valuable both because newcomers won’t understand it at all, and because there’s enough variation in how people currently use epistemic status that it’s not even that clear how to parse the most common cases for oldtimers. Creating default standards makes it so most people don’t reinvent wheels with slightly different wording that people have to parse)