Of course there is also the alternative of not reposting the question. What’s possibly defecty is that maybe lots of people want their thing to have more attention, so it’s potentially a tragedy of the commons. Saying “well, just have those people who most want to repost their thing, repost their thing” could in theory work, but it seems wrong in practice, like you’re just opening up to people who don’t value others’s attention enough.
One could also ask specific people to comment on something, if LW didn’t pick it up.
A lot of LessWrong actually relies on just trusting users not to abuse the site/features.
I make judgment calls on when to repost keeping said trust in mind.
And if reposts were a nuisance people could just mass downvote reposts.
But in general, I think it’s misguided to try and impose a top down moderation solution given that the site already relies heavily on user trust/judgment calls.
This repost hasn’t actually been a problem and is only being an issue because we’re discussing whether it’s a problem or not.
Of course there is also the alternative of not reposting the question. What’s possibly defecty is that maybe lots of people want their thing to have more attention, so it’s potentially a tragedy of the commons. Saying “well, just have those people who most want to repost their thing, repost their thing” could in theory work, but it seems wrong in practice, like you’re just opening up to people who don’t value others’s attention enough.
One could also ask specific people to comment on something, if LW didn’t pick it up.
A lot of LessWrong actually relies on just trusting users not to abuse the site/features.
I make judgment calls on when to repost keeping said trust in mind.
And if reposts were a nuisance people could just mass downvote reposts.
But in general, I think it’s misguided to try and impose a top down moderation solution given that the site already relies heavily on user trust/judgment calls.
This repost hasn’t actually been a problem and is only being an issue because we’re discussing whether it’s a problem or not.