So, um, not exactly on topic but I have no idea where else to ask this—how does one post to one’s personal blog page anyway? And how does one move one’s post between frontpage/personal? This isn’t at all clear. I recently tried to post to the personal blog and it ended up on frontpage and I have no idea how to move it, or how I would have posted to personal in the first place.
(Like, where is this documented? Right now to me it looks like the answer is, not somewhere findable enough.)
Everything is by default posted to your personal blog. There ended up being a lot of posts on frontpage that were often low quality, so currently posting frontpage is no longer an option (except for users over a certain karma threshold I believe). Instead mods take responsibility to push appropriate posts to frontpage.
OK but how does one actually control where a given post goes to? Where is the control? I don’t see it. And despite what you say the one post I made went to front page!
I guess it’s not so much that I am opposed to such a post being frontpaged, as it is, like… that post was just sort of a quick note written without a lot of thought, right? Not something I am necessarily really endorsing or prepared to argue about or anything, you know? I just feel like, if a mod is going to move it to frontpage, they should put their name on it as having done so! :P I didn’t put it on the front page, I just wrote the thing...
So, um, not exactly on topic but I have no idea where else to ask this—how does one post to one’s personal blog page anyway? And how does one move one’s post between frontpage/personal? This isn’t at all clear. I recently tried to post to the personal blog and it ended up on frontpage and I have no idea how to move it, or how I would have posted to personal in the first place.
(Like, where is this documented? Right now to me it looks like the answer is, not somewhere findable enough.)
Everything is by default posted to your personal blog. There ended up being a lot of posts on frontpage that were often low quality, so currently posting frontpage is no longer an option (except for users over a certain karma threshold I believe). Instead mods take responsibility to push appropriate posts to frontpage.
Yeah, should edit OP properly when I get back.
OK but how does one actually control where a given post goes to? Where is the control? I don’t see it. And despite what you say the one post I made went to front page!
You don’t currently have the choice to post to frontpage; the reason your post is on frontpage is because a mod moved it there.
If you’d like posts not to go to frontpage do PM us, and we’ll build a better system for this in time.
Oh I see. That explains it, thanks.
I guess it’s not so much that I am opposed to such a post being frontpaged, as it is, like… that post was just sort of a quick note written without a lot of thought, right? Not something I am necessarily really endorsing or prepared to argue about or anything, you know? I just feel like, if a mod is going to move it to frontpage, they should put their name on it as having done so! :P I didn’t put it on the front page, I just wrote the thing...
(Ignore this answer if you don’t use GreaterWrong and don’t want to do so; but in case anyone who does use GW is wondering the same thing…)
When you click the “+ New post” button, the form will have a “Section” selector, like so:
The “All” option puts the post on your personal page; “Meta” puts it in Meta (duh); “Drafts” leaves it in your drafts.
You can move one of your posts in the same way—click “Edit post” at the bottom…
… set the “Section” selector to whatever you want, and click “Submit”.