I also think this post is a great idea. I’ve written 3 posts that were, objectively, not that appropriate here. Perhaps I should have waited until I knew more about what was going on at LW, but I’m one of those students that has to ask a lot of questions at first, and I’m not sure how long it would have taken me to learn the things that I wanted to know otherwise.
Along these lines, what do you guys think of encouraging new members (say, with Karma < 100) to always mini-post here first? [In Second Life, there was a ‘sandbox area’ where you could practice building objects.] Here on LW, it would be (and is, now that it’s here) immensely useful to try out your topic and gauge what the interest would be on LW.
Personally, I would have been happy to post my posts (all negative scoring) somewhere out of the main throughfare, as I was just fishing for information and trying to get a feel for the group rather than wanting to make top-level statements.
I definitely think this is a post that should stay visible, whether because we start stickying a few posts or because somebody reposts this monthly.
I don’t know whether we need guidelines about when people should post here, and definitely don’t think we need a karma cutoff. I think just knowing it’s here should be enough.
I also think this post is a great idea. I’ve written 3 posts that were, objectively, not that appropriate here. Perhaps I should have waited until I knew more about what was going on at LW, but I’m one of those students that has to ask a lot of questions at first, and I’m not sure how long it would have taken me to learn the things that I wanted to know otherwise.
Along these lines, what do you guys think of encouraging new members (say, with Karma < 100) to always mini-post here first? [In Second Life, there was a ‘sandbox area’ where you could practice building objects.] Here on LW, it would be (and is, now that it’s here) immensely useful to try out your topic and gauge what the interest would be on LW.
Personally, I would have been happy to post my posts (all negative scoring) somewhere out of the main throughfare, as I was just fishing for information and trying to get a feel for the group rather than wanting to make top-level statements.
I definitely think this is a post that should stay visible, whether because we start stickying a few posts or because somebody reposts this monthly.
I don’t know whether we need guidelines about when people should post here, and definitely don’t think we need a karma cutoff. I think just knowing it’s here should be enough.