Instead of vaguely asking people to go read some, why couldn’t we do something more concrete? What we know gets traffic, and what everyone knows that everyone knows gets traffic (so you aren’t pouring the water of your comments onto the sands of an abandoned page), is being on the front page. Instant traffic, entree into RSS feeds, etc.
Why not every 2 days without a fresh front page post, for example, automatically post the next old EY article? (I suggested this back when EY’s old articles were being imported, but my suggestion was unjustly neglected, I felt; perhaps the need has become more apparent since.)
Those are good ideas too. But just to clarify, I wasn’t asking people to read the whole archive, hoping to stumble upon something they remember as being good and modding it up. I was asking that if you already remember certain posts as being good (or find them in a quick perusal of the links I gave), take a moment to mod them up so their rating more accurately reflects their quality in comparison to more recent posts.
Unfortunately, all the non-fiction ones I remember seem to have prerequisites to really understand and grapple with them—prerequisites published before them!
Instead of vaguely asking people to go read some, why couldn’t we do something more concrete? What we know gets traffic, and what everyone knows that everyone knows gets traffic (so you aren’t pouring the water of your comments onto the sands of an abandoned page), is being on the front page. Instant traffic, entree into RSS feeds, etc.
Why not every 2 days without a fresh front page post, for example, automatically post the next old EY article? (I suggested this back when EY’s old articles were being imported, but my suggestion was unjustly neglected, I felt; perhaps the need has become more apparent since.)
Those are good ideas too. But just to clarify, I wasn’t asking people to read the whole archive, hoping to stumble upon something they remember as being good and modding it up. I was asking that if you already remember certain posts as being good (or find them in a quick perusal of the links I gave), take a moment to mod them up so their rating more accurately reflects their quality in comparison to more recent posts.
Unfortunately, all the non-fiction ones I remember seem to have prerequisites to really understand and grapple with them—prerequisites published before them!