I wonder if it would make a big difference to add email notifications… perhaps the type where you only receive the notification when something over X number of karma is posted?
That would keep users from forgetting about the site entirely. And draw more attention and karma (aka positive reinforcement) to those who post quality things.
Hmm that would also keep older users logging in, which would help combat both trending toward the mean and new users outstripping acculturation capacity.
I think that would bring back only the most marginally interested users, and would be likely to annoy a good many people who’d drifted away.
Notification of posts with karma above a chosen threshold might be better.
For that matter, a customizable LW which you could choose to only see posts with karma above a threshold might be good. It would be even better if posts could also be selected/deselected by subject, but that sounds like a hard problem.
I wonder if it would make a big difference to add email notifications… perhaps the type where you only receive the notification when something over X number of karma is posted?
That would keep users from forgetting about the site entirely. And draw more attention and karma (aka positive reinforcement) to those who post quality things.
Hmm that would also keep older users logging in, which would help combat both trending toward the mean and new users outstripping acculturation capacity.
I think that would bring back only the most marginally interested users, and would be likely to annoy a good many people who’d drifted away.
Notification of posts with karma above a chosen threshold might be better.
For that matter, a customizable LW which you could choose to only see posts with karma above a threshold might be good. It would be even better if posts could also be selected/deselected by subject, but that sounds like a hard problem.