To answer people’s questions about the 100+ karma limit:
As lsusr notes, 100 karma isn’t that much and can easily be obtained be obtained by commenting. I think that’s a very reasonable bar to ask of people before offering this service. While I do think we can build the capacity to handle a lot of requests, I expect that without the karma bar, we’d get a lot of requests from people who hadn’t yet invested much in the site (or in their draft), simply because those are the most numerous. At least to begin with, I want to reserve the service for more dedicated users (and again, 100 karma doesn’t take that much).
As per the FAQ, users with less than 100 karma are free to request the service via Intercom and we might offer the service I expect to look over any draft that anyone submits and provide some level of feedback; more if seems like it’ll result in a decent post.
Separately from this initiative, I’m thinking about schemes to create more strong writers such as writing fellowships and writing guides (lsusr’s recent post about how to write well stemmed from a conversation we had about the topic).
To answer people’s questions about the 100+ karma limit:
As lsusr notes, 100 karma isn’t that much and can easily be obtained be obtained by commenting. I think that’s a very reasonable bar to ask of people before offering this service. While I do think we can build the capacity to handle a lot of requests, I expect that without the karma bar, we’d get a lot of requests from people who hadn’t yet invested much in the site (or in their draft), simply because those are the most numerous. At least to begin with, I want to reserve the service for more dedicated users (and again, 100 karma doesn’t take that much).
As per the FAQ, users with less than 100 karma are free to request the service via Intercom and we might offer the service I expect to look over any draft that anyone submits and provide some level of feedback; more if seems like it’ll result in a decent post.
Separately from this initiative, I’m thinking about schemes to create more strong writers such as writing fellowships and writing guides (lsusr’s recent post about how to write well stemmed from a conversation we had about the topic).