If you write a post, it first shows up nowhere else but your personal user page, which you can basically think of being a medium-style blog. If other users have subscribed to you, your post will then show up on their frontpages
Some questions about this (okay if you don’t have answers now):
Can anyone make a personal page?
Are there any requirements for the content—does it need to be “rationality” themed, or can it be whatever the user wants (with the expectation that only LW-appropriate stuff will get promoted to the general frontpage)?
Can a user get kicked off for inappropriate content (whatever that means)?
From the start, all user pages will be personal pages. If you make an account, you’ll have a basic blog.
No requirements for the content. This is for people in the community (and others) to write about whatever they’re interested in. If you want a place to write those short statistical oddities you’ve been posting to tumblr; if you want a place to write those not-quite-essays you’ve been posting to facebook; if you want a place to try out writing full blog posts; if you wish, you can absolutely do that here.
I expect we’ll have some basic norms of decency. I’ve not started the discussion within the Sunshine Regiment on what these will be yet, but once we’ve had a conversation we’ll open it up to input from the community, and I’ll make sure to publish clearly both the norms and info on what happens when someone breaks a norm.
“Can anyone make a personal page?
Are there any requirements for the content—does it need to be “rationality” themed, or can it be whatever the user wants (with the expectation that only LW-appropriate stuff will get promoted to the general frontpage)?
Can a user get kicked off for inappropriate content (whatever that means)?”
Current answer to all of those is:
I don’t have a plan for that yet, let’s figure it out as we run into that problem. For now having too much traffic or content to the site seems like a less important error mode, even if that content is bad, as long as it doesn’t clog up the attention of everyone else.
I would probably suggest warning and eventually banning people who repeatedly try to bring highly controversial politics onto the site, or who repeatedly act in bad faith or taste, so I don’t think we want to leave those personal pages fully unmoderated. But the moderation threshold should be a good bit higher than on the main page. No other constraints on content for now.
When deciding whether to publish content it seems to me to be important whether content is welcome or isn’t. Unclarity about the policy can hold people back from contributing.
Some questions about this (okay if you don’t have answers now):
Can anyone make a personal page?
Are there any requirements for the content—does it need to be “rationality” themed, or can it be whatever the user wants (with the expectation that only LW-appropriate stuff will get promoted to the general frontpage)?
Can a user get kicked off for inappropriate content (whatever that means)?
Thanks for the questions.
From the start, all user pages will be personal pages. If you make an account, you’ll have a basic blog.
No requirements for the content. This is for people in the community (and others) to write about whatever they’re interested in. If you want a place to write those short statistical oddities you’ve been posting to tumblr; if you want a place to write those not-quite-essays you’ve been posting to facebook; if you want a place to try out writing full blog posts; if you wish, you can absolutely do that here.
I expect we’ll have some basic norms of decency. I’ve not started the discussion within the Sunshine Regiment on what these will be yet, but once we’ve had a conversation we’ll open it up to input from the community, and I’ll make sure to publish clearly both the norms and info on what happens when someone breaks a norm.
Apparently me and Ben responded to this at the same time. We seem to have mostly said the same things, so we are apparently fairly in sync.
“Can anyone make a personal page? Are there any requirements for the content—does it need to be “rationality” themed, or can it be whatever the user wants (with the expectation that only LW-appropriate stuff will get promoted to the general frontpage)? Can a user get kicked off for inappropriate content (whatever that means)?”
Current answer to all of those is:
I don’t have a plan for that yet, let’s figure it out as we run into that problem. For now having too much traffic or content to the site seems like a less important error mode, even if that content is bad, as long as it doesn’t clog up the attention of everyone else.
I would probably suggest warning and eventually banning people who repeatedly try to bring highly controversial politics onto the site, or who repeatedly act in bad faith or taste, so I don’t think we want to leave those personal pages fully unmoderated. But the moderation threshold should be a good bit higher than on the main page. No other constraints on content for now.
When deciding whether to publish content it seems to me to be important whether content is welcome or isn’t. Unclarity about the policy can hold people back from contributing.