I wonder if Archipelago is one of those features that is best tested in the context of a larger userbase. Right now there is barely one “island” worth of users on LW. Maybe users just aren’t numerous enough for people to expect bad experiences in the comments of their posts which would cause them to use advanced moderation features. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that you guys have built advanced moderation features before they were actually needed. But I suspect the current userbase is not big enough to stress test them.
We’ve seen 42 post in the last 7 days, and on average the community makes ~500 comments per week. Just want to clarify on the current size of the LW userbase.
Actually yes. For reasons of time, I won’t write stuff now, but look out for a post in Meta probably Monday/Tuesday, with some thoughts on moving in that direction (and agreeing more with your take here than I did at the time).
I only mention the data because I substantially under-predicted it before Ruby told me what the true numbers were.
Edit: Sorry! Turns out that I won’t be writing this post.
I wonder if Archipelago is one of those features that is best tested in the context of a larger userbase. Right now there is barely one “island” worth of users on LW. Maybe users just aren’t numerous enough for people to expect bad experiences in the comments of their posts which would cause them to use advanced moderation features. It’s not necessarily a bad thing that you guys have built advanced moderation features before they were actually needed. But I suspect the current userbase is not big enough to stress test them.
We’ve seen 42 post in the last 7 days, and on average the community makes ~500 comments per week. Just want to clarify on the current size of the LW userbase.
Thanks for the data! Any thoughts on this Wei Dai comment?
Actually yes. For reasons of time, I won’t write stuff now, but look out for a post in Meta probably Monday/Tuesday, with some thoughts on moving in that direction (and agreeing more with your take here than I did at the time).
I only mention the data because I substantially under-predicted it before Ruby told me what the true numbers were.
Edit: Sorry! Turns out that I won’t be writing this post.
What happened?
The team decided to hold off on publishing some thoughts for awhile, sorry about that.