Perhaps a kind “101 Friendly” tag for posts that can be optionally applied. I could imagine it being applied to posts like The basic reasons I expect AGI ruin which signals there isn’t an expectation of prior familiarity with basic arguments. We could literally tie to this a user group permissions category, of certain users are restricted to commenting on posts with that tag.
If you consider that post 101 friendly, I suggest there may be some curse of knowledge going on. Perhaps you expect the average 101 question to come from a university student with a background in computer science? Otherwise I suggest asking people without such a background (e.g. your parents or grandparents, or random members of the public) to read such a post; I expect they will not consider it comprehensible.
It’s not reasonable to start site content from zero, of course, but that post is very, very, very far from zero.
Anyway, considering that you want to consider 101 questions in moderation decisions, I really wonder what the target audience for this 101 content is supposed to be, and what kinds of prerequisites you expect them to have. Are highschool students fine? University students from soft sciences? Etc.
To suggest a counterexample to what could be considered 101 content, consider that the first post in the original sequences was The Simple Truth, a parable about a shepherd, written to explain what it means for something to be “true”. Now that’s starting from zero.
If you consider that post 101 friendly, I suggest there may be some curse of knowledge going on. Perhaps you expect the average 101 question to come from a university student with a background in computer science? Otherwise I suggest asking people without such a background (e.g. your parents or grandparents, or random members of the public) to read such a post; I expect they will not consider it comprehensible.
It’s not reasonable to start site content from zero, of course, but that post is very, very, very far from zero.
Anyway, considering that you want to consider 101 questions in moderation decisions, I really wonder what the target audience for this 101 content is supposed to be, and what kinds of prerequisites you expect them to have. Are highschool students fine? University students from soft sciences? Etc.
To suggest a counterexample to what could be considered 101 content, consider that the first post in the original sequences was The Simple Truth, a parable about a shepherd, written to explain what it means for something to be “true”. Now that’s starting from zero.