I think this undervalues nod posts. Most people don’t hear a good idea once and immediately implement it perfectly. They need reminders, in general and at the right time. Different authors put different spins on posts, a given one may resonate more or less with any particular person. I think the same thing about books that could have been blog posts- the point of the length isn’t to convey more information, it’s to give the same information more real estate in your brain.
Probably most nod posts deserve less karma than the initial post but not always (sometimes the restatement is better, sometimes it’s a new development not a restatement), and less karma doesn’t mean they shouldn’t exist at all.
Yeah, I definitely hear ya. I agree about those benefits you lay out. Despite those benefits, nod posts still strike me as being generally overvalued, but I’m having a hard time coming up with a crux or a way to make progress on the question “are they generally overvalued?”. I think we as well as most people agree on the costs and benefits, but just have different intuitions on how the costs and benefits typically play out.
I think this undervalues nod posts. Most people don’t hear a good idea once and immediately implement it perfectly. They need reminders, in general and at the right time. Different authors put different spins on posts, a given one may resonate more or less with any particular person. I think the same thing about books that could have been blog posts- the point of the length isn’t to convey more information, it’s to give the same information more real estate in your brain.
Probably most nod posts deserve less karma than the initial post but not always (sometimes the restatement is better, sometimes it’s a new development not a restatement), and less karma doesn’t mean they shouldn’t exist at all.
Yeah, I definitely hear ya. I agree about those benefits you lay out. Despite those benefits, nod posts still strike me as being generally overvalued, but I’m having a hard time coming up with a crux or a way to make progress on the question “are they generally overvalued?”. I think we as well as most people agree on the costs and benefits, but just have different intuitions on how the costs and benefits typically play out.