I think there are a lot of old posts that don’t get read. I’m most drawn to the Latest Posts because that’s where the social interaction via commenting is. LessWrong is quite tolerant of comments on old posts, but they don’t get as much engagement. It’s too diffuse to be self-sustaining, but I feel like the newcomers are missing out on that in the core material.
What can we do about that? Maybe someone else has a better idea, but I think I’d like to see an official community readthrough of the core sequences (at least RAZ, Codex, and old Best Of) pinned in the Latest Posts area so it actually gets engagement from newcomers. Maybe they should be copies so the comments start out empty, but with some added language encouraging newcomers to engage.
I think there are a lot of old posts that don’t get read. I’m most drawn to the Latest Posts because that’s where the social interaction via commenting is. LessWrong is quite tolerant of comments on old posts, but they don’t get as much engagement. It’s too diffuse to be self-sustaining, but I feel like the newcomers are missing out on that in the core material.
What can we do about that? Maybe someone else has a better idea, but I think I’d like to see an official community readthrough of the core sequences (at least RAZ, Codex, and old Best Of) pinned in the Latest Posts area so it actually gets engagement from newcomers. Maybe they should be copies so the comments start out empty, but with some added language encouraging newcomers to engage.
There has got to be a better, more durable way to show recent comments than the current recent comments view.