(but, we now have a track record of occasional bounty posts successfully motivating such work).
Can you elaborate on this? I haven’t seen any bounty-driven work adjacent to LW, and I’d like to look at a few successes to help me understand whether adding some of those mechanisms to LW is useful, comparing to adding some LW interactions (ads or links) to those places where bounties are already successful.
I’m much more excited about such a project bootstrapping off LW than trying to start from scratch.
I totally get that, but those aren’t the only two options, and that excitement doesn’t make it the right choice.
Examples of bounties were included in the rewrite (they have already become moderately common on LW, and most of the time seem to produce more/better discussion). See the middle section for a few links.
I meant ‘excited’ in the sense that I expect it to work and generate a lot of value.
Can you elaborate on this? I haven’t seen any bounty-driven work adjacent to LW, and I’d like to look at a few successes to help me understand whether adding some of those mechanisms to LW is useful, comparing to adding some LW interactions (ads or links) to those places where bounties are already successful.
I totally get that, but those aren’t the only two options, and that excitement doesn’t make it the right choice.
Examples of bounties were included in the rewrite (they have already become moderately common on LW, and most of the time seem to produce more/better discussion). See the middle section for a few links.
I meant ‘excited’ in the sense that I expect it to work and generate a lot of value.