Feedback from me: I started reading the post, but it had a bunch of huge blockquotes and I couldn’t really figure out what the post was about from the title, so I navigated back to the frontpage without engaging. In-particular I didn’t understand the opening quote, which didn’t have a source, or how it was related to the rest of the post (in like the 10 seconds I spent on the page).
An opening paragraph that states a clear thesis or makes an interesting point or generally welcomes me into what’s going on would have helped a lot.
Okay, thanks for the feedback! So a more informative title would be better. I’ve been using quotes to denote abstracts (or opening paragraph), but maybe that’s a bit confusing.
I’ve changed the title now, and changed the abstract from a quote to bolded.
The actual quote was also too long that I would have stopped reading if I wasn’t trying to analyse your post.
The quote is also out of context, in that I am very confused about what the author was trying to say from the first paragraph. Because I was skimming, I didn’t really understand the quote until the market section.
Fortunately, there’s a good (and well-known) alternative alternative to what?, which is to randomize decisions sometimes, at random yeah that makes sense, but how does randomization relate to prediction markets?. You tell people: “I will roll a 20-sided die. If it comes up 1-19, everyone gets their money back and I do what I want what is I do what I want. If it comes up 20, the bets activate and I decide what to do using a coinflip. ok so this is about a bet, but then why coin flip??”
Okay, lesson learned: Don’t start a blogpost with a long-ass quote from another post out of context. Put it later after the reader is in flow (apparently the abstract isn’t enough). Don’t do what’s done here.
To be clear, I totally didn’t parse the opening blockquote as an abstract. I parsed it as a quote from a different post, I just couldn’t figure out from where.
Feedback from me: I started reading the post, but it had a bunch of huge blockquotes and I couldn’t really figure out what the post was about from the title, so I navigated back to the frontpage without engaging. In-particular I didn’t understand the opening quote, which didn’t have a source, or how it was related to the rest of the post (in like the 10 seconds I spent on the page).
An opening paragraph that states a clear thesis or makes an interesting point or generally welcomes me into what’s going on would have helped a lot.
Okay, thanks for the feedback! So a more informative title would be better. I’ve been using quotes to denote abstracts (or opening paragraph), but maybe that’s a bit confusing.
I’ve changed the title now, and changed the abstract from a quote to bolded.
The actual quote was also too long that I would have stopped reading if I wasn’t trying to analyse your post.
The quote is also out of context, in that I am very confused about what the author was trying to say from the first paragraph. Because I was skimming, I didn’t really understand the quote until the market section.
Okay, lesson learned: Don’t start a blogpost with a long-ass quote from another post out of context. Put it later after the reader is in flow (apparently the abstract isn’t enough). Don’t do what’s done here.
To be clear, I totally didn’t parse the opening blockquote as an abstract. I parsed it as a quote from a different post, I just couldn’t figure out from where.