One thing I’m finding quite surprising about shortform is how long some of these posts are. It seems that many people are using this feature to indicate that they’ve just written up these ideas quickly in the hope that the feedback is less harsh. This seems valuable; the feedback here can be incredibly harsh at times and I don’t doubt that this has discouraged many people from posting.
I pushed a bit for the name ‘scratchpad’ so that this use case was a bit clearer (or at least not subtly implied as “wrong”). Shortform had enough momentum as a name that it was a bit hard to change tho. (Meanwhile, I settled for ’shortform means either the writing is short, or it took a (relatively) short amount of time to write)
One thing I’m finding quite surprising about shortform is how long some of these posts are. It seems that many people are using this feature to indicate that they’ve just written up these ideas quickly in the hope that the feedback is less harsh. This seems valuable; the feedback here can be incredibly harsh at times and I don’t doubt that this has discouraged many people from posting.
I pushed a bit for the name ‘scratchpad’ so that this use case was a bit clearer (or at least not subtly implied as “wrong”). Shortform had enough momentum as a name that it was a bit hard to change tho. (Meanwhile, I settled for ’shortform means either the writing is short, or it took a (relatively) short amount of time to write)
“I’m sorry, I didn’t have the time to write you a short email, so I wrote you a long one instead.”
Can confirm. I don’t post on normal lesswrong because the discourse is brutal.