In general, I’d very much like a permanent neat-things-to-know-about-LW post or page, which receives edits when there’s a significant update (do tell me if there’s already something like this). For example, I remember trying to find information about the mapping between karma and voting power a few months ago, and it was very difficult. I think I eventually found an announcement post that had the answer, but I can’t know for sure, since there might have been a change since that announcement was made. More recently, I saw that there were footnotes in the sequences, and failed to find any reference whatsoever on how to create footnotes. I didn’t learn how to do this until a month or so later, when the footnotes came to the EA forum and aaron wrote a post about it.
I agree with this. We are working on an updated About/Welcome page which will have info in this reference class (or at least links to other posts that have all of that info).
In general, I’d very much like a permanent neat-things-to-know-about-LW post or page, which receives edits when there’s a significant update (do tell me if there’s already something like this). For example, I remember trying to find information about the mapping between karma and voting power a few months ago, and it was very difficult. I think I eventually found an announcement post that had the answer, but I can’t know for sure, since there might have been a change since that announcement was made. More recently, I saw that there were footnotes in the sequences, and failed to find any reference whatsoever on how to create footnotes. I didn’t learn how to do this until a month or so later, when the footnotes came to the EA forum and aaron wrote a post about it.
I agree with this. We are working on an updated About/Welcome page which will have info in this reference class (or at least links to other posts that have all of that info).
Strongly upvoted.