Adele_L comments on [LINK] XKCD Comic #1236, Seashells and Bayes’ Theorem

Adele_L 10 Jul 2013 14:51 UTC
5 points

It seems to me that most people don’t bother putting things on the Open Thread if it’s more than five days old,

Once the Open Thread is more than a few days old, locating where it is can take more work.

The value of posting something to the Open Thread also decays rapidly away from the first and fifteenth of the month.

Seems like we should have Open Threads more often.
- Ben Pace 10 Jul 2013 16:37 UTC
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  No, just a link to it on the welcome page, along with some other important pages… Like the various repositories, and Public Annoucnements.
  - Adele_L 10 Jul 2013 17:22 UTC
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    I think that would only solve this issue: “Once the Open Thread is more than a few days old, locating where it is can take more work.”
    
    There is significantly less visibility with posting in an already crowded thread, and that’s the main reason people don’t like posting in it after a few days. This is also a problem with the repositories and other similar pages. Maybe the current format is bad for this, and a different format would be better, in addition to a more prominent link.