As terms, I like “Applied Rationality” more than “Instrumental Rationality” and “Epistemic Rationality” more than “Normative Rationality.” As collections of topics, I think the collections outlined in Idea 2 (‘perceiving reality’ vs. ‘achieving goals’) are better.
Like many others, I think that having “Main” as a separate subreddit is a bad idea. I think there should be an explicit and prominent link to “all,” and it would be awesome if you could see promoted posts both by subreddit and across all subreddits.
I think we may want to tune the karma multipliers. Actually, is it possible to tune karma modifiers for comments by subreddit? I’ve noticed that comments on technical topics tend to get only a handful of votes- because the issues get less traffic- but they’re often comments I wish I could upvote five times, because of the effort and expertise the comment represents, and the precision with which it addresses the issue. Treating technical posts on decision theory as more weighty than posts on futurism strikes me as something worth considering. (This might also help with the problem drethelin raises, of keeping technical discussions higher quality by making upvotes and downvotes way more serious, but I’m not sure it’s the right way to do that.)
It seems like using the 10x multiplier for promoted posts, regardless of original subreddit, might be a good idea, and we could also have a 0x or 0.1x multiplier for subreddits people might otherwise not like to have. Giving people karma for saying “hi! :)” in a social subreddit doesn’t seem like a good idea, but people getting to see a lot of upvotes on their greetings in a social subreddit seems like it might be a good idea. In the xkcd forums, there’s a “forum games” section which does not contribute to total post count.
As terms, I like “Applied Rationality” more than “Instrumental Rationality” and “Epistemic Rationality” more than “Normative Rationality.” As collections of topics, I think the collections outlined in Idea 2 (‘perceiving reality’ vs. ‘achieving goals’) are better.
Like many others, I think that having “Main” as a separate subreddit is a bad idea. I think there should be an explicit and prominent link to “all,” and it would be awesome if you could see promoted posts both by subreddit and across all subreddits.
I think we may want to tune the karma multipliers. Actually, is it possible to tune karma modifiers for comments by subreddit? I’ve noticed that comments on technical topics tend to get only a handful of votes- because the issues get less traffic- but they’re often comments I wish I could upvote five times, because of the effort and expertise the comment represents, and the precision with which it addresses the issue. Treating technical posts on decision theory as more weighty than posts on futurism strikes me as something worth considering. (This might also help with the problem drethelin raises, of keeping technical discussions higher quality by making upvotes and downvotes way more serious, but I’m not sure it’s the right way to do that.)
It seems like using the 10x multiplier for promoted posts, regardless of original subreddit, might be a good idea, and we could also have a 0x or 0.1x multiplier for subreddits people might otherwise not like to have. Giving people karma for saying “hi! :)” in a social subreddit doesn’t seem like a good idea, but people getting to see a lot of upvotes on their greetings in a social subreddit seems like it might be a good idea. In the xkcd forums, there’s a “forum games” section which does not contribute to total post count.