Cool idea. It would be neat to do a version of this coordinated with the Less Wrong blog, and have people use the same log in info and other integration. For example, you could get karma +/- for how you are on the workspace as well as the blog, and/or maybe you’d need to be at a minimum karma level to be in the workspace.
Ooh, I was just thinking of something else fun to do. We could potentially do something like what BIL does, where people can post potential topics and times for doing hang-outs, and then if enough people sign up, that hang out gets promoted on the list of weekly events.
For example, we could have “Discussion of the Current Top Rated Post for 2 Hours at x Time” listed for people to vote on, or “Doing Dual N-Back for 20 minutes followed by discussion” as another option.
Integrating with LessWrong would be great, but it would also cost money and time, and the idea is only experimental and (sorry to say this) not guaranteed to succeed. So we should make a prototype using the existing free tools. And when it succeeds… well, sky is the limit.
Makes sense and agreed. It would be nice if we could use log in info and and karma ratings as an easy way to keep out trolls without needing to do much manual moderating. That said, just trying it and seeing if trolls become a problem first seems very much worth doing. I’m encouraging people to use the chat room that Tsakinis created to get the ball rolling with initial experimenting.
Cool idea. It would be neat to do a version of this coordinated with the Less Wrong blog, and have people use the same log in info and other integration. For example, you could get karma +/- for how you are on the workspace as well as the blog, and/or maybe you’d need to be at a minimum karma level to be in the workspace.
Also, if this gets created and takes off, we can see if FrankAdamek is up for listing it weekly along with the in person meet-up notifications.
Ooh, I was just thinking of something else fun to do. We could potentially do something like what BIL does, where people can post potential topics and times for doing hang-outs, and then if enough people sign up, that hang out gets promoted on the list of weekly events.
For example, we could have “Discussion of the Current Top Rated Post for 2 Hours at x Time” listed for people to vote on, or “Doing Dual N-Back for 20 minutes followed by discussion” as another option.
doodle.com may work well for scheduling.
For scheduling purposes, i’ve found WhenIsGood to be quite invaluable when coordinating between multiple time zones and people.
Integrating with LessWrong would be great, but it would also cost money and time, and the idea is only experimental and (sorry to say this) not guaranteed to succeed. So we should make a prototype using the existing free tools. And when it succeeds… well, sky is the limit.
Makes sense and agreed. It would be nice if we could use log in info and and karma ratings as an easy way to keep out trolls without needing to do much manual moderating. That said, just trying it and seeing if trolls become a problem first seems very much worth doing. I’m encouraging people to use the chat room that Tsakinis created to get the ball rolling with initial experimenting.