Seems hard since there’s much less citing, and even posts that reference earlier ones don’t necessarily link to them (e.g. people often talk about “slack” without linking to the original post).
One feature that might address this, that the LW team might consider building, would be a “link suggestion” feature—i.e., if I am reading a post, perhaps I can highlight a word/phrase and suggestion another post (or whatever) that it should link to. The author of the post, or perhaps a moderator (if the author has consented to allow moderator editing), might then “take the suggestion”, making the suggested hyperlink real.
(One of many such potential enhancements from the “crowdsource everything” category…)
Nice! Would it be possible to build something like this for the LW or EA Forum archives?
Seems hard since there’s much less citing, and even posts that reference earlier ones don’t necessarily link to them (e.g. people often talk about “slack” without linking to the original post).
One feature that might address this, that the LW team might consider building, would be a “link suggestion” feature—i.e., if I am reading a post, perhaps I can highlight a word/phrase and suggestion another post (or whatever) that it should link to. The author of the post, or perhaps a moderator (if the author has consented to allow moderator editing), might then “take the suggestion”, making the suggested hyperlink real.
(One of many such potential enhancements from the “crowdsource everything” category…)
There’s a way in which it’s still similar, as no one in biology cites Darwin when talking about evolution.