If this is the canonical reference for one of the most important concepts of all time on LW (and I think it is), then I’d bid in favor of it getting upvoted on that basis even if it’s not novel. My thinking is that LW is meant to mostly be a timeless repository of knowledge, where content continues to be used ten years from now rather than just being used for a month. If someone stumbles on this page in five or ten years, I want the upvotes to provide a signal about how useful the post is to read.
(The karma only matters as a signal for people who aren’t familiar with the post/concept; if you are familiar, you can just decide whether to reread on that basis.)
‘Karma as a signal that I want to see more things like this’ matters a little, but less than usual since CFAR!Duncan is a dummy account and the handbook-posting is a scheduled thing.
(Of course, some people won’t read the post because they’ve seen it in the past, and also won’t want to upvote something based only on a vague years-old recollection. That makes total sense to me. But if you do read it, I wouldn’t personally hold back on upvotes just because it’s old.)
If this is the canonical reference for one of the most important concepts of all time on LW (and I think it is), then I’d bid in favor of it getting upvoted on that basis even if it’s not novel. My thinking is that LW is meant to mostly be a timeless repository of knowledge, where content continues to be used ten years from now rather than just being used for a month. If someone stumbles on this page in five or ten years, I want the upvotes to provide a signal about how useful the post is to read.
(The karma only matters as a signal for people who aren’t familiar with the post/concept; if you are familiar, you can just decide whether to reread on that basis.)
‘Karma as a signal that I want to see more things like this’ matters a little, but less than usual since CFAR!Duncan is a dummy account and the handbook-posting is a scheduled thing.
(Of course, some people won’t read the post because they’ve seen it in the past, and also won’t want to upvote something based only on a vague years-old recollection. That makes total sense to me. But if you do read it, I wouldn’t personally hold back on upvotes just because it’s old.)