If I was a new user reading “Your first post is a bit like an application,” I would delay making a first post longer than would be optimal: I would spend too much time revising my first post or even discard several possibilities until I had a post idea I was ~sure was good.
A bad-thing-to-avoid is that the people who are most scrupulous about reading messages like this, who (maybe) are also more likely to have written fine posts in the first place, end up overly anxious about it and delaying longer unnecessarily.
Suboptimal for what, though? If you audition for a place in an orchestra and you’re accepted, does that make the audition a suboptimal waste of time? If an aspiring musician lacks the confidence to apply, that is their problem, not the orchestra’s.
Have you scaled up the moderation accordingly? I have noticed fewer comments that are on the level of what gets posted on r/slatestarcodex these days but I’m not sure if it’s just a selection effect.
For the past couple weeks we’ve been checking each new comment and rejecting ones we think fail the criteria in the comment warning. (This ends up being something like 9 comments a day. For comparison, there’s like 2-3 comments from newish users each day that actually seem to meet the bar)
We’ll hopefully have the “rejected” section of the site up soon so that people can evaluate whether they think we’re making reasonable calls here.
(To be clear, when I say “not reduced the number of posts”, I mean “reduced the number of people submitting posts”, not “posts that get accepted.” We’ve also been rejecting a few new posts a day)
If I was a new user reading “Your first post is a bit like an application,” I would delay making a first post longer than would be optimal: I would spend too much time revising my first post or even discard several possibilities until I had a post idea I was ~sure was good.
Um, hypothetically working as intended?
A bad-thing-to-avoid is that the people who are most scrupulous about reading messages like this, who (maybe) are also more likely to have written fine posts in the first place, end up overly anxious about it and delaying longer unnecessarily.
Um, no; see “longer than would be optimal.”
Suboptimal for what, though? If you audition for a place in an orchestra and you’re accepted, does that make the audition a suboptimal waste of time? If an aspiring musician lacks the confidence to apply, that is their problem, not the orchestra’s.
I am worried that, although also it’s been up for a week and not obviously reduced the number of posts.
Have you scaled up the moderation accordingly? I have noticed fewer comments that are on the level of what gets posted on r/slatestarcodex these days but I’m not sure if it’s just a selection effect.
For the past couple weeks we’ve been checking each new comment and rejecting ones we think fail the criteria in the comment warning. (This ends up being something like 9 comments a day. For comparison, there’s like 2-3 comments from newish users each day that actually seem to meet the bar)
We’ll hopefully have the “rejected” section of the site up soon so that people can evaluate whether they think we’re making reasonable calls here.
(To be clear, when I say “not reduced the number of posts”, I mean “reduced the number of people submitting posts”, not “posts that get accepted.” We’ve also been rejecting a few new posts a day)