Things I’d be interested to learn in the retrospective:
What was the volume of posts and comments, relative to the LW baseline? I felt pretty overwhelmed and certainly couldn’t keep up with everything.
Side note: Is there a way to get some rough site analytics for one’s own posts? I was quite surprised with how many comments I got on this post (especially relative to its karma), and when I shared it on r/SSC here, I learned that the reddit linkpost got 5.9k views. Which to me sounded frankly implausibly high by an order of magnitude. But on the other hand, I have no sense for which proportion of LW readers upvote or comment on posts, either.
And a question from another angle: what are the best times to post on LW, if one wants to maximize the chance not to have it get buried unseen?
Did this experiment have any long-term effects on site traffic and behavior? (To be answered in a few months, I guess.)
You’ll presumably list the total payout, but what was the internal expectation of the LW team? How much money did you budget for this?
And how much other resources (e.g. staff time for engineering or site moderation) did you expend?
What were your greatest hopes and fears for this experiment? How does the actual result compare to these expectations?
Are there any other crazy experiments you’d love to try? How do they compare in crazyness to Good Heart Week?
Things I’d be interested to learn in the retrospective:
What was the volume of posts and comments, relative to the LW baseline? I felt pretty overwhelmed and certainly couldn’t keep up with everything.
Side note: Is there a way to get some rough site analytics for one’s own posts? I was quite surprised with how many comments I got on this post (especially relative to its karma), and when I shared it on r/SSC here, I learned that the reddit linkpost got 5.9k views. Which to me sounded frankly implausibly high by an order of magnitude. But on the other hand, I have no sense for which proportion of LW readers upvote or comment on posts, either.
And a question from another angle: what are the best times to post on LW, if one wants to maximize the chance not to have it get buried unseen?
Did this experiment have any long-term effects on site traffic and behavior? (To be answered in a few months, I guess.)
You’ll presumably list the total payout, but what was the internal expectation of the LW team? How much money did you budget for this?
And how much other resources (e.g. staff time for engineering or site moderation) did you expend?
What were your greatest hopes and fears for this experiment? How does the actual result compare to these expectations?
Are there any other crazy experiments you’d love to try? How do they compare in crazyness to Good Heart Week?
Thanks for the comment, I’ll return to this when I do my post.
If you ever find the time, I’d still be interested in seeing the retrospective from Good Heart Week 2022.