I agree with the thrust of your comment, and I want to give writers a button which prevents moderators from promoting things to the frontpage, should they wish for this to be the case. The reason I (and eventually the full moderator team) will promote things from personal blogs is because I asked many of the writers in this community what they wanted, and they said that they didn’t want to have to make the decision to post to the LW frontpage—for many that came with assocciated costs of having to write to a certain standard, and they’d probably end up just not writing at all (as happened on LW 1.0).
So far it’s had some successes, where writers have told me either publicly or privately that they’d never have posted to the frontpage, but are happy that it’s ended all the way up in Featured (exampleexample).
I agree with the thrust of your comment, and I want to give writers a button which prevents moderators from promoting things to the frontpage, should they wish for this to be the case. The reason I (and eventually the full moderator team) will promote things from personal blogs is because I asked many of the writers in this community what they wanted, and they said that they didn’t want to have to make the decision to post to the LW frontpage—for many that came with assocciated costs of having to write to a certain standard, and they’d probably end up just not writing at all (as happened on LW 1.0).
So far it’s had some successes, where writers have told me either publicly or privately that they’d never have posted to the frontpage, but are happy that it’s ended all the way up in Featured (example example).