Here are the options as I see them. This list should not be seen to be exhaustive.
We rely solely on the karma/voting system. The posts which are on-topic are those which are upvoted—on-topicness is thus a quality determined by the number of readers who believe a post is on-topic and of sufficient quality (either in and of itself or by virtue of the attached comment thread).
We rely on the Editor’s discretion. Those which are on-topic are the posts which he decides not to hide from the feed.
We make the feed more dynamic—something akin to reddit’s front page schema, where you can filter your front page by subreddit, hide posts from a certain user, etc.
Personally, I would love for #3 to be implemented—but LW may not be big enough for it to be effective (e.g. we have no “subreddits”, only tags)
In any case, I do think we need to state our policy. As it is, I Eliezer’s plan seems to be to make up policy on the fly and introduce what I think are rather ad hoc (not to mention ineffective) “vote up if you would approve of this” comments.
Here are the options as I see them. This list should not be seen to be exhaustive.
We rely solely on the karma/voting system. The posts which are on-topic are those which are upvoted—on-topicness is thus a quality determined by the number of readers who believe a post is on-topic and of sufficient quality (either in and of itself or by virtue of the attached comment thread).
We rely on the Editor’s discretion. Those which are on-topic are the posts which he decides not to hide from the feed.
We make the feed more dynamic—something akin to reddit’s front page schema, where you can filter your front page by subreddit, hide posts from a certain user, etc.
Personally, I would love for #3 to be implemented—but LW may not be big enough for it to be effective (e.g. we have no “subreddits”, only tags)
In any case, I do think we need to state our policy. As it is, I Eliezer’s plan seems to be to make up policy on the fly and introduce what I think are rather ad hoc (not to mention ineffective) “vote up if you would approve of this” comments.