Hey, I’m new to LessWrong and working on a post—however at some point the guidelines which pop up at the top of a fresh account’s “new post” screen went away, and I cannot find the same language in the New Users Guide or elsewhere on the site.
Does anyone have a link to this? I recall a list of suggestions like “make the post object-level,” “treat it as a submission for a university,” “do not write a poetic/literary post until you’ve already gotten a couple object-level posts on your record.”
It seems like a minor oversight if it’s impossible to find certain moderation guidelines/tips and tricks if you’ve already saved a draft/posted a comment.
I am not terribly worried about running headfirst into a moderation filter, as I can barely manage to write a comment which isn’t as high effort of an explanation as I can come up with—but I do want that specific piece of text for reference, and now it appears to have evaporated into the shadow realm.
Am I just missing a link that would appear if I searched something else?
(Edit: also, sorry if this is the wrong place for this, I would’ve tried the “intercom” feature, but I am currently on the mobile version of the site, and that feature appears to be entirely missing there—and yes, I checked my settings to make sure it wasn’t “hidden”)
Also, yeah, makes sense. Hopefully this isn’t a horribly misplaced thread taking up people’s daily scrolling bandwidth with no commensurate payoff.
Maybe I’ll just say something here to cash out my impression of the “first post” intro-message in question: its language has seemed valuable to my mentality in writing a post so far.
Although, I think I got a mildly misleading first-impression about how serious the filter was. The first draft for a post I half-finished was a fictional explanatory dialogue involving a lot of extended metaphors… After reading that I had the mental image of getting banned immediately with a message like “oh, c’mon, did you even read the prompt?”
Still, that partially-mistaken mental frame made me go read more documentation on the editor and take a more serious approach to planning a post. A bit like a very mild temperature-drop shock to read “this is like a university application.”
I grok the intent, and I’m glad the community has these sorta norms. It seems likely to help my personal growth agenda on some dimensions.
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s worth it to make it more accessible. I may have just failed a Google + “keyword in quotation marks” search, or failed to notice a link when searching via LessWrong’s search feature.
Actually, an easy fix would just be for Google to improve their search tools, so that I can locate any link regardless of how specific for any public webpage just by ranting at my phone.
Anyway, thanks as well to Ben for tagging those mod-staff people.
Hey, I’m new to LessWrong and working on a post—however at some point the guidelines which pop up at the top of a fresh account’s “new post” screen went away, and I cannot find the same language in the New Users Guide or elsewhere on the site.
Does anyone have a link to this? I recall a list of suggestions like “make the post object-level,” “treat it as a submission for a university,” “do not write a poetic/literary post until you’ve already gotten a couple object-level posts on your record.”
It seems like a minor oversight if it’s impossible to find certain moderation guidelines/tips and tricks if you’ve already saved a draft/posted a comment.
I am not terribly worried about running headfirst into a moderation filter, as I can barely manage to write a comment which isn’t as high effort of an explanation as I can come up with—but I do want that specific piece of text for reference, and now it appears to have evaporated into the shadow realm.
Am I just missing a link that would appear if I searched something else?
(Edit: also, sorry if this is the wrong place for this, I would’ve tried the “intercom” feature, but I am currently on the mobile version of the site, and that feature appears to be entirely missing there—and yes, I checked my settings to make sure it wasn’t “hidden”)
EDIT: looks like habryka got there earlier and I didn’t see it.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zXJfH7oZ62Xojnrqs/#sLay9Tv65zeXaQzR4
Intercom is indeed hidden on mobile (since it’d be pretty intrusive at that screen size).
Thanks anyway :)
Also, yeah, makes sense. Hopefully this isn’t a horribly misplaced thread taking up people’s daily scrolling bandwidth with no commensurate payoff.
Maybe I’ll just say something here to cash out my impression of the “first post” intro-message in question: its language has seemed valuable to my mentality in writing a post so far.
Although, I think I got a mildly misleading first-impression about how serious the filter was. The first draft for a post I half-finished was a fictional explanatory dialogue involving a lot of extended metaphors… After reading that I had the mental image of getting banned immediately with a message like “oh, c’mon, did you even read the prompt?”
Still, that partially-mistaken mental frame made me go read more documentation on the editor and take a more serious approach to planning a post. A bit like a very mild temperature-drop shock to read “this is like a university application.”
I grok the intent, and I’m glad the community has these sorta norms. It seems likely to help my personal growth agenda on some dimensions.
It’s not the most obvious place, but the content lives here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zXJfH7oZ62Xojnrqs/lesswrong-moderation-messaging-container?commentId=sLay9Tv65zeXaQzR4
Thanks! :)
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s worth it to make it more accessible. I may have just failed a Google + “keyword in quotation marks” search, or failed to notice a link when searching via LessWrong’s search feature.
Actually, an easy fix would just be for Google to improve their search tools, so that I can locate any link regardless of how specific for any public webpage just by ranting at my phone.
Anyway, thanks as well to Ben for tagging those mod-staff people.
@Ruby @RobertM