I worried about that, but I decided that risking my karma was worth the potential gains of more people seeing it. If people downvote me into oblivion, I suppose I will have learned a lesson, but some of the early comments make me hope that this will get people to do something good that they otherwise wouldn’t.
I actually didn’t realize until now that articles don’t pop up in the Main RSS unless they are upvoted to a certain value. Do you think I’d get more eyes on this if it were in Discussion rather than Main?
Posts are “promoted” to the front page by the editors on the basis of substantive new content, clear argument, good writing, popularity, and importance. The posts with karma totals in green disks instead of gray circles have been promoted.
I don’t actually know. For all I know, articles become Promoted when Eliezer likes them enough to do background things in the blog. Maybe I should repost this in Discussion as well. I might worry that that would irritate people who see it twice, though.
I might worry that that would irritate people who see it twice, though.
You could post a disclaimer at the beginning: “This article is also posted in Main; however I want as many people as possible to see it. Please ignore if you have already read it.”
I actually didn’t realize until now that articles don’t pop up in the Main RSS unless they are upvoted to a certain value.
Does this apply to the RSS feed for plain old main or just the RSS feed for promoted main? I seem to find my RSS feed (the first link) is reasonably complete so if there is a karma requirement there it isn’t a high one.
I read recent comments (and posts that constitute the parents of interesting recent comments) almost exclusively. This seems to amount to much the same thing. For some bizarre reason the most interesting discussion occurs in ‘discussion’.
Possibly. Are the utilons he gets from having it more immediately available to be read and followed worth the possible negative karma? In any case, it looks like it’s currently being upvoted.
Thanks for telling us this. If I lived in America I’d certainly consider this.
However, this should probably have been posted in Discussion. You might get downvoted for putting it here.
I worried about that, but I decided that risking my karma was worth the potential gains of more people seeing it. If people downvote me into oblivion, I suppose I will have learned a lesson, but some of the early comments make me hope that this will get people to do something good that they otherwise wouldn’t.
Possible point for consideration: Some people look at discussion and not main. I don’t know if anyone reads main and not discussion.
But yeah, sure. I’m not annoyed at you.
I actually didn’t realize until now that articles don’t pop up in the Main RSS unless they are upvoted to a certain value. Do you think I’d get more eyes on this if it were in Discussion rather than Main?
I don’t know. Maybe. What’s that certain value?
From the Less Wrong FAQ:
I don’t actually know. For all I know, articles become Promoted when Eliezer likes them enough to do background things in the blog. Maybe I should repost this in Discussion as well. I might worry that that would irritate people who see it twice, though.
You could post a disclaimer at the beginning: “This article is also posted in Main; however I want as many people as possible to see it. Please ignore if you have already read it.”
Does this apply to the RSS feed for plain old main or just the RSS feed for promoted main? I seem to find my RSS feed (the first link) is reasonably complete so if there is a karma requirement there it isn’t a high one.
I read discussion almost exclusively.
I read recent comments (and posts that constitute the parents of interesting recent comments) almost exclusively. This seems to amount to much the same thing. For some bizarre reason the most interesting discussion occurs in ‘discussion’.
I rarely read discussion.
Possibly. Are the utilons he gets from having it more immediately available to be read and followed worth the possible negative karma? In any case, it looks like it’s currently being upvoted.