A very important factor in your post points is whether Eliezer decides to promote your post. If he doesn’t, it doesn’t show up on the home page.
For this reason, I would be more in favor of this idea if lesswrong.com pointed to ‘new’ instead of ‘promoted’.
I’m not saying that I want lesswrong.com to point to ‘new’. I’m aware that there’s a reason for pointing it to ‘promoted’. I’m explaining that my utility function incorporates a dependency between these two decisions.
A very important factor in your post points is whether Eliezer decides to promote your post. If he doesn’t, it doesn’t show up on the home page.
For this reason, I would be more in favor of this idea if lesswrong.com pointed to ‘new’ instead of ‘promoted’.
I’m not saying that I want lesswrong.com to point to ‘new’. I’m aware that there’s a reason for pointing it to ‘promoted’. I’m explaining that my utility function incorporates a dependency between these two decisions.
Set your favorites to point to new, that’s what I do.