Meta-comment; It might be a good idea to create an official Lightcone-or-whatever LW account that you can publish these kinds of posts from. Then, someone could e.g. subscribe to that user, and get notified of all the official announcement-type posts, without having to subscribe to the personal account of Ruby-or-Ray-etc.
Tagging feels more like the right abstraction here (you can subscribe to tags). There’s a Site Meta tag. We could make a LW Team Announcement tag or something.
We have a general policy against organizational-accounts in most cases (since they make it less clear who you’re talking to, and sort of shift culture into a more bureaucratic direction). So, I’d avoid a solution where we ourselves did that. :P
Meta-comment; It might be a good idea to create an official Lightcone-or-whatever LW account that you can publish these kinds of posts from. Then, someone could e.g. subscribe to that user, and get notified of all the official announcement-type posts, without having to subscribe to the personal account of Ruby-or-Ray-etc.
Tagging feels more like the right abstraction here (you can subscribe to tags). There’s a Site Meta tag. We could make a LW Team Announcement tag or something.
We have a general policy against organizational-accounts in most cases (since they make it less clear who you’re talking to, and sort of shift culture into a more bureaucratic direction). So, I’d avoid a solution where we ourselves did that. :P
Gotcha, that makes sense! Agreed that an announcement tag is a good solution.
I created this: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/lw-team-announcements
I’m not 100% sure how well we’ll stick to it but you can subscribe to it.