Guest posts/Public Q&A : we could invite “celebrities” (other bloggers, mostly) to either write a guest post about a topic they care about, or just answer questions from the community. For example a feminist blogger, or Razib Khan, or, I dunno, someone that has interesting things to say but isn’t part of this community.
This would be different from a “normal” post in that we wouldn’t expect the poster to stick around much, wouldn’t chastise him for not “fitting in” (“Have you read the sequences?”) or for linking prominently to his own blog, etc.
Guest posts/Public Q&A : we could invite “celebrities” (other bloggers, mostly) to either write a guest post about a topic they care about, or just answer questions from the community. For example a feminist blogger, or Razib Khan, or, I dunno, someone that has interesting things to say but isn’t part of this community.
This would be different from a “normal” post in that we wouldn’t expect the poster to stick around much, wouldn’t chastise him for not “fitting in” (“Have you read the sequences?”) or for linking prominently to his own blog, etc.
This seems like a good suggestion and one that would help address the concerns raised in Robin Hanson’s Most Rationalists Are Elsewhere.
I think we could woo Luke Muehlhauser of Common Sense Atheism to do one (he’s currently blogging his way through the sequences)
http://commonsenseatheism.com/?cat=61
This sounds like a pretty good idea. Maintaining outside influence on the community is a good thing. Helps avoid groupthink/cultishness etc.