I was relating pretty similar experiences here, albeit with more of a “lol post karma is stupid amiright?” vibe than a “this is a problem we should fix” vibe.
Your journalist thing is an easy-to-read blog post that strongly meshes with a popular rationalist tribal belief (i.e., “boo journalists”). Obviously those kinds of posts are going to get lots and lots of upvotes, and thus posts that lack those properties can get displaced from the frontpage. I have no idea what can be done about that problem, except that we can all individually try to be mindful about which posts we’re reading and upvoting (or strong-upvoting) and why.
(This is a pro tanto argument for having separate karma-voting and approval-voting for posts, I think.)
And simultaneously, we writers should try not to treat the lesswrong frontpage as our one and only plan for getting what we write in front of our target audience. (E.g. you yourself have other distribution channels.)
I was relating pretty similar experiences here, albeit with more of a “lol post karma is stupid amiright?” vibe than a “this is a problem we should fix” vibe.
Your journalist thing is an easy-to-read blog post that strongly meshes with a popular rationalist tribal belief (i.e., “boo journalists”). Obviously those kinds of posts are going to get lots and lots of upvotes, and thus posts that lack those properties can get displaced from the frontpage. I have no idea what can be done about that problem, except that we can all individually try to be mindful about which posts we’re reading and upvoting (or strong-upvoting) and why.
(This is a pro tanto argument for having separate karma-voting and approval-voting for posts, I think.)
And simultaneously, we writers should try not to treat the lesswrong frontpage as our one and only plan for getting what we write in front of our target audience. (E.g. you yourself have other distribution channels.)