I think zero time should be devoted to solutions for excessive downvoting of old material. Rather, the mods and other de facto leaders ought to devote their time to finding ways to reinvigorate LW with new interesting content.
I stop by when I have time or interest. I don’t have the intelligence or writing skills to contribute much high level content. I consume LW when it’s good and try to comment my honest thoughts when they seem relevant.
Maintenance is fine. But the lack of content is priority one with a bullet IMO. If the power user base wants to divvy up resources rationally, I think this sort of ban is very low on the list.
In one sense, banning someone takes almost no resources—all I have to do is enter their name into two web pages. However, thinking about whether to ban someone takes rather more time. Likewise if I chose discuss a banning.
I think zero time should be devoted to solutions for excessive downvoting of old material. Rather, the mods and other de facto leaders ought to devote their time to finding ways to reinvigorate LW with new interesting content.
If you have people being demotivated because of downvoting that reduces the chances that those people will write new interesting content.
Yes, but this post is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
So write awesome things here.
I stop by when I have time or interest. I don’t have the intelligence or writing skills to contribute much high level content. I consume LW when it’s good and try to comment my honest thoughts when they seem relevant.
But you do have time to drop by and criticize content people do produce, right?
I would like see a resurgence of interesting content myself, but that isn’t the same thing as giving up on maintenance.
Anyone here can work on interesting content. Do you have any ideas for encouraging it?
Not really.
Maintenance is fine. But the lack of content is priority one with a bullet IMO. If the power user base wants to divvy up resources rationally, I think this sort of ban is very low on the list.
It’s not like banning a single user takes a lot of resources.
In one sense, banning someone takes almost no resources—all I have to do is enter their name into two web pages. However, thinking about whether to ban someone takes rather more time. Likewise if I chose discuss a banning.