I lean towards an opt-out system for whole post imports? I’d expect the vast majority of relevant authors to be happy with it, and it would offer less inconvenience to readers. Letting an author easily register as “no whole text imports please” seems worthwhile, and maybe if people aren’t happy with that switching to opt-in?
well a lot of the things-imported may be from people who don’t think of themselves as centrally LW members, or who wouldn’t notice.
(medium-difficulty case: Robin Hanson. Harder-difficulty-case: some academic who wrote something relevant to x-risk but isn’t actually very involved in our ecosystem)
Cool, in that case probably opt-in to full-post makes more sense, maybe with the ability to switch modes for all posts by an author if they give permission?
I lean towards an opt-out system for whole post imports? I’d expect the vast majority of relevant authors to be happy with it, and it would offer less inconvenience to readers. Letting an author easily register as “no whole text imports please” seems worthwhile, and maybe if people aren’t happy with that switching to opt-in?
well a lot of the things-imported may be from people who don’t think of themselves as centrally LW members, or who wouldn’t notice.
(medium-difficulty case: Robin Hanson. Harder-difficulty-case: some academic who wrote something relevant to x-risk but isn’t actually very involved in our ecosystem)
Cool, in that case probably opt-in to full-post makes more sense, maybe with the ability to switch modes for all posts by an author if they give permission?
I think basically nobody is going to really opt-in-or-out, so I think the question is “what actually is a reasonable default?”
If it’s easy for submitters to check a box which says “I asked them and they said full post imports are fine”, maybe?
No strong takes on default, just obvious considerations you’ll have thought of.
Mmm, I kinda like that.