To be clear I think fiction is totally fine once a user’s demonstrated that they’re otherwise a pretty good fit for the site. So the thing here is “we get the fiction later”, not “not at all” (hopefully).
Yeah, wanted to say something similar. An interesting failure mode would be irrational writers of good fiction; like someone who gets on average +20 karma for their fiction articles, −20 karma for their non-fiction articles, and write so much really good fiction that they can afford to write lots of bad articles.
Perhaps we could officially recommend some existing fiction website as the default place to go if you want to post fiction? Intuitively, saying “go to X instead” sounds more polite and more actionable than saying “go away”. Especially if X would already have something like rationalist fiction as a category.
To be clear I think fiction is totally fine once a user’s demonstrated that they’re otherwise a pretty good fit for the site. So the thing here is “we get the fiction later”, not “not at all” (hopefully).
Yeah, wanted to say something similar. An interesting failure mode would be irrational writers of good fiction; like someone who gets on average +20 karma for their fiction articles, −20 karma for their non-fiction articles, and write so much really good fiction that they can afford to write lots of bad articles.
Perhaps we could officially recommend some existing fiction website as the default place to go if you want to post fiction? Intuitively, saying “go to X instead” sounds more polite and more actionable than saying “go away”. Especially if X would already have something like rationalist fiction as a category.