I agree. While I appreciate the push to lower the barriers to posting for those who feel intimidated, the flipside of this is that it’s pretty demotivating when a post that reflects five months and hundreds of hours of work is on the front page for less than a day. I feel like there’s something wrong with the system when I can spend five minutes putting together a linkpost instead and earn a greater level of engagement.
Yeah I feel the same way, I wonder if there’s a good fix for that. Given the current setup, long effortposts are usually only of interest to a small % of people, so they don’t get as many upvotes.
But as long as a large fraction of this small % of people sees the post, this is not a big problem, no? I imagine that this is for example true for EAs interested in improving institutions and the landscape analysis of institutional improvements.
I agree. While I appreciate the push to lower the barriers to posting for those who feel intimidated, the flipside of this is that it’s pretty demotivating when a post that reflects five months and hundreds of hours of work is on the front page for less than a day. I feel like there’s something wrong with the system when I can spend five minutes putting together a linkpost instead and earn a greater level of engagement.
Yeah I feel the same way, I wonder if there’s a good fix for that. Given the current setup, long effortposts are usually only of interest to a small % of people, so they don’t get as many upvotes.
But as long as a large fraction of this small % of people sees the post, this is not a big problem, no? I imagine that this is for example true for EAs interested in improving institutions and the landscape analysis of institutional improvements.