I’d largely prefer that, with a caveat that it’s often considered bad form to directly copy another site’s content.
I think Link Posts were mostly an idea that made sense at the time when a) most rationalfolk were blogging elsewhere and we wanted to at least consolidate it, b) in general LW didn’t seem like it was succeeding at a place of discussion and so making it into something more like a hacker-news clone seemed more appropriate.
I’d prefer a world where instead, if you’re a blogger in the rationalsphere, you have some kind of incentive to crosspost your content here (we already have tools for that, they’re just not quite ready to be opened up for random people to easily add themselves)
Put another way: if I didn’t have ethical-esque concerns about taking peope’s content without their consent, I’d be pro-link-posts-auto-copy-the-content. Since I do have that concern, I think it should be an opt-in-thing on the part of other bloggers.
To rephrase: I don’t mean for other people to post your content. I mean to only allow original posters to post their actual content in the main forum, rather than a link away. Perhaps links can go on the discussion board, but I want to eliminate them.
Right—this is explicitly the plan. (We have tools for allowing bloggers to automatically share posts from their RSS feed onto LessWrong, the tools just aren’t very polished)
Link Posts are basically a holdover from before we had this functionality. Right now I think they’re pretty confusing and it’s probably better to actually remove the option of creating Link Posts until we either make them better or decide to leave them behind permanently.
I’d largely prefer that, with a caveat that it’s often considered bad form to directly copy another site’s content.
I think Link Posts were mostly an idea that made sense at the time when a) most rationalfolk were blogging elsewhere and we wanted to at least consolidate it, b) in general LW didn’t seem like it was succeeding at a place of discussion and so making it into something more like a hacker-news clone seemed more appropriate.
I’d prefer a world where instead, if you’re a blogger in the rationalsphere, you have some kind of incentive to crosspost your content here (we already have tools for that, they’re just not quite ready to be opened up for random people to easily add themselves)
Put another way: if I didn’t have ethical-esque concerns about taking peope’s content without their consent, I’d be pro-link-posts-auto-copy-the-content. Since I do have that concern, I think it should be an opt-in-thing on the part of other bloggers.
To rephrase: I don’t mean for other people to post your content. I mean to only allow original posters to post their actual content in the main forum, rather than a link away. Perhaps links can go on the discussion board, but I want to eliminate them.
Right—this is explicitly the plan. (We have tools for allowing bloggers to automatically share posts from their RSS feed onto LessWrong, the tools just aren’t very polished)
Link Posts are basically a holdover from before we had this functionality. Right now I think they’re pretty confusing and it’s probably better to actually remove the option of creating Link Posts until we either make them better or decide to leave them behind permanently.
(Not sure if we’re missing something and just communicating past each other)