If we only ever promoted articles appropriate for those first running into LW, many of those promoted in the past shoudln’t have been. That’s far too harsh a standard to enforce. Not to mention it would make promoted articles a rather dull read (advanced rationality material is out the window and only a small fraction of intro posts would remain).
I don’t think it was a mistake for it to be promoted in the sense of it clearly being something most of the community enjoyed and many people only read promoted articles. In many respects I think LW is basically better at accruing those who already happen to share our peculiar memes and shibboleths rather transforming people.
Which may or may not be a good thing, but it certainly isn’t something that is much altered by this article.
If we only ever promoted articles appropriate for those first running into LW, many of those promoted in the past shoudln’t have been. That’s far too harsh a standard to enforce. Not to mention it would make promoted articles a rather dull read (advanced rationality material is out the window and only a small fraction of intro posts would remain).
I don’t think it was a mistake for it to be promoted in the sense of it clearly being something most of the community enjoyed and many people only read promoted articles. In many respects I think LW is basically better at accruing those who already happen to share our peculiar memes and shibboleths rather transforming people.
Which may or may not be a good thing, but it certainly isn’t something that is much altered by this article.