I think if there was a period where every few days a mod would post a few nominated posts and ask people to re-read and re-discuss them, that might have helped to engage people like me more. (Although honestly there’s so much new content on LW competing for attention now that I might not have participated much even in that process.)
That’s a pretty good idea, might try something like that next year.
the ones that did jump out at me I think I already commented on back when they were first posted and don’t feel motivated to review them now.
Not sure how helpful this is, but fwiw:
I think it’s useful for the post authors to write reviews basically saying “here is how much thinking has evolved since writing this, and/or ’yup, I still just endorse this and think it’s great”.
In the same way, I think it’d be useful people did most of their commenting back-in-the-day write a short review that basically says “I still endorse the things I said back then”, or “my thinking has changed a bit, here’s how.” (As I noted elsethread, I think it was also helpful when Vanessa combined several previous comments into one more distilled comment, although obviously that’s a bit more work).
That’s a pretty good idea, might try something like that next year.
Not sure how helpful this is, but fwiw:
I think it’s useful for the post authors to write reviews basically saying “here is how much thinking has evolved since writing this, and/or ’yup, I still just endorse this and think it’s great”.
In the same way, I think it’d be useful people did most of their commenting back-in-the-day write a short review that basically says “I still endorse the things I said back then”, or “my thinking has changed a bit, here’s how.” (As I noted elsethread, I think it was also helpful when Vanessa combined several previous comments into one more distilled comment, although obviously that’s a bit more work).