After talking things over with the LessWrong team, I decided to re-run the preliminary-vote totals. So, during the final week of the Review Phase, people deciding what to prioritize have a more accurate picture of which posts are likely to actually win, and therefore are worth more effort writing detailed reviews of.
It’s important not to be continuously re-running the vote-totals because it shifts voting behavior to be too strategic, but I think it’s fine to re-run them once in the middle of the review phase each year.
After talking things over with the LessWrong team, I decided to re-run the preliminary-vote totals. So, during the final week of the Review Phase, people deciding what to prioritize have a more accurate picture of which posts are likely to actually win, and therefore are worth more effort writing detailed reviews of.
It’s important not to be continuously re-running the vote-totals because it shifts voting behavior to be too strategic, but I think it’s fine to re-run them once in the middle of the review phase each year.