The norms are that you get to talk about whatever you want, including election stuff, on your personal blog (which this and basically all other Coronavirus posts are on). We might hide things from the frontpage and all-posts page completely if they seem to get out of hand. On personal blog, bringing up a topic but asking others not to talk about it, also seems totally fine to me. If you want to respond you can always create a new top-level post (though in either case people might downvote stuff).
This norm does seem right to me but it is probably worth noting the asymmetry in audience between a typical personal blog post and these COVID updates. I feel like Zvi has earned the right to do this if he wants but would personally prefer the topics to be separated into different posts.
Agreed that doing what I did here on a regular basis would be quite bad. You and/or history can decide whether it was appropriate, but I hope to never do it again to this extent.
In order to see personal blogposts on the frontpage, you have to (at some point of using LessWrong) explicitly enabled the display of personal blogposts. New users and unregistered visitors do not have personal blogposts show up in the same way.
I don’t have Personal enabled under Latest and thus I don’t see the personal blog posts under “Latest”. But I do see them under “Recent Discussion”, maybe that is what ShardPhoenix is referring to? (In fact this is how I arrived here)
I suspect a bug. I have no recollection of turning personal blog posts on, but I still see the tag on next to Latest. It’s entirely possible that I forgot about this, but that doesn’t sound like a thing I’d do.
(That said, just realizing I can set a personal blog post penalty of −25 is going to make LessWrong much more tolerable.)
We’ve maintained backwards compatibility with many past iterations of filtering out personal blogposts. So you might have sometime in the past checked one of the checkboxes we had on the frontpage for filtering out personal blogposts.
The norms are that you get to talk about whatever you want, including election stuff, on your personal blog (which this and basically all other Coronavirus posts are on). We might hide things from the frontpage and all-posts page completely if they seem to get out of hand. On personal blog, bringing up a topic but asking others not to talk about it, also seems totally fine to me. If you want to respond you can always create a new top-level post (though in either case people might downvote stuff).
This norm does seem right to me but it is probably worth noting the asymmetry in audience between a typical personal blog post and these COVID updates. I feel like Zvi has earned the right to do this if he wants but would personally prefer the topics to be separated into different posts.
Agreed that doing what I did here on a regular basis would be quite bad. You and/or history can decide whether it was appropriate, but I hope to never do it again to this extent.
Being a “personal blog” seems like a bit of a technicality when I come to the site and it shows up on my front page like any other post.
In order to see personal blogposts on the frontpage, you have to (at some point of using LessWrong) explicitly enabled the display of personal blogposts. New users and unregistered visitors do not have personal blogposts show up in the same way.
I don’t have Personal enabled under Latest and thus I don’t see the personal blog posts under “Latest”. But I do see them under “Recent Discussion”, maybe that is what ShardPhoenix is referring to? (In fact this is how I arrived here)
Ah, yeah. They do still show up under Recent Discussion. Fair point.
I suspect a bug. I have no recollection of turning personal blog posts on, but I still see the tag on next to Latest. It’s entirely possible that I forgot about this, but that doesn’t sound like a thing I’d do.
(That said, just realizing I can set a personal blog post penalty of −25 is going to make LessWrong much more tolerable.)
We’ve maintained backwards compatibility with many past iterations of filtering out personal blogposts. So you might have sometime in the past checked one of the checkboxes we had on the frontpage for filtering out personal blogposts.