Benquo might choose to rewrite his original post in response to review-feedback, but Zvi has sort of already been working on that (but, on later posts that wouldn’t show up till the 2020 review)
If Benquo re-wrote his original post extensively enough, that would also sort of count as 2020-2021 content. Which makes me wonder whether it would make sense to distinguish ‘this post is in the 2018 review because of its underlying content’ vs. ‘this post is in the 2018 review because of its implementation/presentation’? Then the ‘underlying content’ stuff could include multiple posts, or posts from later years, as warranted.
A bad situation to maybe try to avoid is: an important idea never ends up included in a review because the original exposition is in one post/year, and the best exposition is in another post/year, and the original exposition is not quite well-executed to warrant inclusion, while the best exposition is not quite noteworthy or innovative enough. (E.g., maybe the best exposition is just a shorter, lightly rephrased version of the original.)
Including content and not just posts also helps address the problem where you want to credit multiple different people for an idea (or idea+exposition), even where their collaboration was spread across multiple posts rather than a single post with multiple authors.
Yeah agreed. There’s (relatedly) the thing where “post” isn’t even always the natural category of thing-people-want-to-nominate (often I think people are nominating a sequence). It’s a somewhat tricky question “how do we let people nominate ‘concepts’ with multiple related posts?” in a way that has good UI and is clear.
I think for immediate future, it’s probably good to just manually spell out “I’m really nominating this overall concept, and am interested in comparing it to more recent work”. I’m not 100% sure what’ll make sense for handling that in the Review Phase but seems worth trying.
If Benquo re-wrote his original post extensively enough, that would also sort of count as 2020-2021 content. Which makes me wonder whether it would make sense to distinguish ‘this post is in the 2018 review because of its underlying content’ vs. ‘this post is in the 2018 review because of its implementation/presentation’? Then the ‘underlying content’ stuff could include multiple posts, or posts from later years, as warranted.
A bad situation to maybe try to avoid is: an important idea never ends up included in a review because the original exposition is in one post/year, and the best exposition is in another post/year, and the original exposition is not quite well-executed to warrant inclusion, while the best exposition is not quite noteworthy or innovative enough. (E.g., maybe the best exposition is just a shorter, lightly rephrased version of the original.)
Including content and not just posts also helps address the problem where you want to credit multiple different people for an idea (or idea+exposition), even where their collaboration was spread across multiple posts rather than a single post with multiple authors.
Yeah agreed. There’s (relatedly) the thing where “post” isn’t even always the natural category of thing-people-want-to-nominate (often I think people are nominating a sequence). It’s a somewhat tricky question “how do we let people nominate ‘concepts’ with multiple related posts?” in a way that has good UI and is clear.
I think for immediate future, it’s probably good to just manually spell out “I’m really nominating this overall concept, and am interested in comparing it to more recent work”. I’m not 100% sure what’ll make sense for handling that in the Review Phase but seems worth trying.