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.
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.