Discussion is something of a ghetto. None of its comments or posts are linked in the sidebar, which directs a lot of LW traffic. I only saw this because I specifically subscribe the Discussion RSS feed.
If this were switched to the main article area with the concomitant traffic (to say nothing of the front page itself), I’d be very surprised if it wound up after a month with under 20 net upvotes.
It had 2 upvotes (one of them from me) when I typed the above, despite having been posted for most of the time it has currently been up and having attracted many comments. Low traffic wasn’t the problem; I’d been wondering if it was because folks disagreed with the poster about where to donate, or what.
Nothing strange about it. My last Discussion post has a net of 5 upvotes (1/2 this) - and 57 comments (~3x more), very few of which point to any issue in the linked material which I had written.
Discussion is something of a ghetto. None of its comments or posts are linked in the sidebar, which directs a lot of LW traffic. I only saw this because I specifically subscribe the Discussion RSS feed.
If this were switched to the main article area with the concomitant traffic (to say nothing of the front page itself), I’d be very surprised if it wound up after a month with under 20 net upvotes.
It had 2 upvotes (one of them from me) when I typed the above, despite having been posted for most of the time it has currently been up and having attracted many comments. Low traffic wasn’t the problem; I’d been wondering if it was because folks disagreed with the poster about where to donate, or what.
Nothing strange about it. My last Discussion post has a net of 5 upvotes (1/2 this) - and 57 comments (~3x more), very few of which point to any issue in the linked material which I had written.