I’m curious about negative or neutral endorsements. That is, I’m going through and looking at posts and thinking “should this be in the review? Why or why not?”, and sometimes the answer comes back “no” for somewhat interesting reasons.
The example that prompted this question is Write a Thousand Roads to Rome. It’s a clear statement of an important pedagogical point, but it’s an exhortation to action that I don’t think moved the community all that much (from my vantage point). If I want people to read it now, it’s more because “hey, here’s some advice we still haven’t fully internalized / processed the resistance to” instead of “this became part of LW / me, and was useful.” Maybe put another way, the thing I want to do more is write a “why isn’t this the equilibrium?” post in reply instead of just repeating the push in that direction.
But while I feel good about leaving comments saying “this was a really great post for reasons A, B, and C” on posts from 2018, I don’t feel good about saying “this is a decent post that doesn’t meet my bar” on posts from 2018. (Which is different from arguing against someone else’s endorsement for review later, when the author has opted in to the process of receiving feedback.) But also I’m not sure what else to do with the thoughts; keep them in a text doc in case someone else nominates it? Discard them and regenerate them later?
I’m curious about negative or neutral endorsements. That is, I’m going through and looking at posts and thinking “should this be in the review? Why or why not?”, and sometimes the answer comes back “no” for somewhat interesting reasons.
The example that prompted this question is Write a Thousand Roads to Rome. It’s a clear statement of an important pedagogical point, but it’s an exhortation to action that I don’t think moved the community all that much (from my vantage point). If I want people to read it now, it’s more because “hey, here’s some advice we still haven’t fully internalized / processed the resistance to” instead of “this became part of LW / me, and was useful.” Maybe put another way, the thing I want to do more is write a “why isn’t this the equilibrium?” post in reply instead of just repeating the push in that direction.
But while I feel good about leaving comments saying “this was a really great post for reasons A, B, and C” on posts from 2018, I don’t feel good about saying “this is a decent post that doesn’t meet my bar” on posts from 2018. (Which is different from arguing against someone else’s endorsement for review later, when the author has opted in to the process of receiving feedback.) But also I’m not sure what else to do with the thoughts; keep them in a text doc in case someone else nominates it? Discard them and regenerate them later?