Very quick thought: basically the reasons we haven’t and might not do more in this direction is how it might alter what gets written. It doesn’t seem good if people were to start writing more heavily for engagement metrics. Also not clear to me that engagement metrics capture the true value that matters of intellectual contributions.
(Habryka has an old comment somewhere delving into this, which I couldn’t find. But the basic gist was “the entire rest of the internet is optimizing directly for eyeballs, and it seemed good for LessWrong to be a place trying to have a different set of incentives”)
Very quick thought: basically the reasons we haven’t and might not do more in this direction is how it might alter what gets written. It doesn’t seem good if people were to start writing more heavily for engagement metrics. Also not clear to me that engagement metrics capture the true value that matters of intellectual contributions.
(Habryka has an old comment somewhere delving into this, which I couldn’t find. But the basic gist was “the entire rest of the internet is optimizing directly for eyeballs, and it seemed good for LessWrong to be a place trying to have a different set of incentives”)