Would be cool if LessWrong hosted subforums/bubbles/research-groups for anyone who wanted to start one and invite their friends. You would have the ability to write a post only to your bubble (visible on your bubble’s frontpage or a private filter to the main frontpage) or choose to crosspost it to main as well. Having the bubbles be on LW provides them a little prestige boost and could stimulate some folk to initiate new research covens for alignment or whatever (or *cough* social epistemology research bubble maybe).
You could also have the option to filter karma so you only see the karma assigned by people in your bubble. Or, just like you can subscribe to get notified when people post, you could “subscribe” to prioritise their karma too. You could make a custom karma-filter individual to you by subscribing to people or groups whose opinions you trust. And the individual-filtered karma could be transitive as well, according to some parameters you set yourself—similar to plex&co’s EigenTrust project except it’d be EigenKarma. There’s more cool stuff here, but I’m probably never going to actually finish a post about it, so better suggest it briefly to someone than not suggest it at all.
I think part of what you’re describing is what the group functionality on the community tab does? It lets you create a bubble that people can subscribe to, and allows you to make posts only visible on the group page, I think.
Alas, those are just for hosting events. Jic, I tried to check if they have more functionality since I’m an organiser of the EA Gather Town group, but it doesn’t do any of that.
Huh, they must have changed that at some point. I remember being confused about a year ago when I made a normal post to a group expecting it to show up on the front page and it didn’t. The admins confirmed that was intentional.
Might be worth talking with them about on Intercom? If they had the functionality at some point, that (probably) makes it a lower-cost change to make, if removing it wasn’t because they explicitly decided against it for some reason.
Would be cool if LessWrong hosted subforums/bubbles/research-groups for anyone who wanted to start one and invite their friends. You would have the ability to write a post only to your bubble (visible on your bubble’s frontpage or a private filter to the main frontpage) or choose to crosspost it to main as well. Having the bubbles be on LW provides them a little prestige boost and could stimulate some folk to initiate new research covens for alignment or whatever (or *cough* social epistemology research bubble maybe).
You could also have the option to filter karma so you only see the karma assigned by people in your bubble. Or, just like you can subscribe to get notified when people post, you could “subscribe” to prioritise their karma too. You could make a custom karma-filter individual to you by subscribing to people or groups whose opinions you trust. And the individual-filtered karma could be transitive as well, according to some parameters you set yourself—similar to plex&co’s EigenTrust project except it’d be EigenKarma. There’s more cool stuff here, but I’m probably never going to actually finish a post about it, so better suggest it briefly to someone than not suggest it at all.
OK, done daydreaming. Back to work.
I think part of what you’re describing is what the group functionality on the community tab does? It lets you create a bubble that people can subscribe to, and allows you to make posts only visible on the group page, I think.
Alas, those are just for hosting events. Jic, I tried to check if they have more functionality since I’m an organiser of the EA Gather Town group, but it doesn’t do any of that.
Huh, they must have changed that at some point. I remember being confused about a year ago when I made a normal post to a group expecting it to show up on the front page and it didn’t. The admins confirmed that was intentional.
O.O!
They should bring it back.
Might be worth talking with them about on Intercom? If they had the functionality at some point, that (probably) makes it a lower-cost change to make, if removing it wasn’t because they explicitly decided against it for some reason.
nou. im busy rn, maybe later.