Agreed insofar as shortform posts are conceptually shortlived, which is a bummer for high-karma shortform posts with big comments treads.
Disagreed insofar by “automatically converted” you mean “the shortform author has no recourse against this”. I do wish there were both nudges to turn particularly high-value shortform posts (and particularly high-value comments, period!) into full posts, and assistance to make this as easy as possible, but I’m against forcing authors and commenters to do things against their wishes.
(Side note: there are also a few practical issues with converting shortform posts to full posts: the latter have titles, the former do not. The former have agreement votes, the latter do not. Do you straightforwardly port over the karma votes from shortform to full post? Full posts get an automatic strong upvote from their author, whereas comments only get an automatic regular upvote. Etc.)
Still, here are a few ideas for such non-coercive nudges and assistance:
An opt-in or opt-out feature to turn high-karma shortform posts into full posts.
An email reminder or website notification to inform you about high-karma shortform posts or comments you could turn into full posts, ideally with a button you can click which does this for you.
Since it can be a hassle to think up a title, some general tips or specific AI assistance for choosing one. (Though if there was AI assistance, it should not invent titles out of thin air, but rather make suggestions which closely hew to the shortform content. E.g. for your shortform post, it should be closer to “LessWrong shortform posts above some amount of karma should get automatically converted into personal blog posts”, rather than “a revolutionary suggestion to make LessWrong, the greatest of all websites, even better, with this one simple trick”.)
Disagreed insofar by “automatically converted” you mean “the shortform author has no recourse against this’”.
No. That’s why I said the feature should be optional. You can make a general default setting for your shortform, plus there should and there should be a toggle (hidden in the three dots menu?) to turn this on and off on a post by post basis.
Agreed insofar as shortform posts are conceptually shortlived, which is a bummer for high-karma shortform posts with big comments treads.
Disagreed insofar by “automatically converted” you mean “the shortform author has no recourse against this”. I do wish there were both nudges to turn particularly high-value shortform posts (and particularly high-value comments, period!) into full posts, and assistance to make this as easy as possible, but I’m against forcing authors and commenters to do things against their wishes.
(Side note: there are also a few practical issues with converting shortform posts to full posts: the latter have titles, the former do not. The former have agreement votes, the latter do not. Do you straightforwardly port over the karma votes from shortform to full post? Full posts get an automatic strong upvote from their author, whereas comments only get an automatic regular upvote. Etc.)
Still, here are a few ideas for such non-coercive nudges and assistance:
An opt-in or opt-out feature to turn high-karma shortform posts into full posts.
An email reminder or website notification to inform you about high-karma shortform posts or comments you could turn into full posts, ideally with a button you can click which does this for you.
Since it can be a hassle to think up a title, some general tips or specific AI assistance for choosing one. (Though if there was AI assistance, it should not invent titles out of thin air, but rather make suggestions which closely hew to the shortform content. E.g. for your shortform post, it should be closer to “LessWrong shortform posts above some amount of karma should get automatically converted into personal blog posts”, rather than “a revolutionary suggestion to make LessWrong, the greatest of all websites, even better, with this one simple trick”.)
No. That’s why I said the feature should be optional. You can make a general default setting for your shortform, plus there should and there should be a toggle (hidden in the three dots menu?) to turn this on and off on a post by post basis.