Lesswrong needed more content at one point. Now it does not. It needs the content to be higher quality. It would be nice for users to know if lw is looking for more content or strictly higher quality content if we can’t have both.
I gave some points about the higher quality/low quality debate in my two answers to Viliam, but I will answer more specifically to this here.
The quality of a post is relative to the other posts. Yes, if the other articles are from Scott Alexander, ialdaboth, sarahconstantin and Rob Bensiger, the quality of my daily posts are quite deplorable, and spamming the frontpage with low quality posts is not what LW users want.
However, for the last few days, I decided not to publish on the frontpage, and LW even changed the website so that I can’t publish on the frontpage. So it’s personal blog by default, and it will go to frontpage only if mods/LW users enjoy it and think it’s insightful enough.
Are you saying that people might want high quality personal blogs then?
Well, I get why people might be interested in reading personal blogs, and want them to be of high quality. And, because you got to correct some of my posts, I understand the frustration of seeing articles published where there still is a lot of work to do.
However, the LW algorithm is also responsible for this. Maybe it promotes too much the recent posts, and should highlight more the upvoted ones. Then, my posts will never be visible. Only the 20+ upvotes will be visible in the personal blogs page.
I understand why people would prefer an article that took one week to write, short and concise, particularly insightful. I might prefer that as well, and start to only post higher-quality posts here. But I don’t agree that it is not recommended for people to post not-well-thought-off articles on a website where you are able to post personal blogs.
I think volume is not a problem if the upvote/downvote system and the algorithms are good enough to filter the useful posts for the readers. People should not filter themselves, and keep articles they enjoy not as much as Scott Alexander ones ( but still find insightful), for themselves.
Lesswrong needed more content at one point. Now it does not. It needs the content to be higher quality. It would be nice for users to know if lw is looking for more content or strictly higher quality content if we can’t have both.
I gave some points about the higher quality/low quality debate in my two answers to Viliam, but I will answer more specifically to this here.
The quality of a post is relative to the other posts. Yes, if the other articles are from Scott Alexander, ialdaboth, sarahconstantin and Rob Bensiger, the quality of my daily posts are quite deplorable, and spamming the frontpage with low quality posts is not what LW users want.
However, for the last few days, I decided not to publish on the frontpage, and LW even changed the website so that I can’t publish on the frontpage. So it’s personal blog by default, and it will go to frontpage only if mods/LW users enjoy it and think it’s insightful enough.
Are you saying that people might want high quality personal blogs then?
Well, I get why people might be interested in reading personal blogs, and want them to be of high quality. And, because you got to correct some of my posts, I understand the frustration of seeing articles published where there still is a lot of work to do.
However, the LW algorithm is also responsible for this. Maybe it promotes too much the recent posts, and should highlight more the upvoted ones. Then, my posts will never be visible. Only the 20+ upvotes will be visible in the personal blogs page.
I understand why people would prefer an article that took one week to write, short and concise, particularly insightful. I might prefer that as well, and start to only post higher-quality posts here. But I don’t agree that it is not recommended for people to post not-well-thought-off articles on a website where you are able to post personal blogs.
I think volume is not a problem if the upvote/downvote system and the algorithms are good enough to filter the useful posts for the readers. People should not filter themselves, and keep articles they enjoy not as much as Scott Alexander ones ( but still find insightful), for themselves.