Nice, I like that idea, and I think it would be good to make it easier for writers to understand what demand exists for topics. It reminds me of the What posts would you like someone to write? threads—I’m glad we experimented with those. However, I don’t know if they actually led to any valuable outcomes, so I’d like to think more about how much user attention we should aim to put on this (for example, right now I feel hesitant to make a new thread pinned to the frontpage). Perhaps it would be worth experimenting with bounties, although I’m not sure if people would actually offer to pay for posts.
In the meantime, you can feel free to respond to one of the old threads (which will still appear in the “Recent discussion” feed), or my suggestion is to write a quick take about it (the rate of quick takes is currently low enough that you’ll get some attention on the frontpage).
Nice, I like that idea, and I think it would be good to make it easier for writers to understand what demand exists for topics. It reminds me of the What posts would you like someone to write? threads—I’m glad we experimented with those. However, I don’t know if they actually led to any valuable outcomes, so I’d like to think more about how much user attention we should aim to put on this (for example, right now I feel hesitant to make a new thread pinned to the frontpage). Perhaps it would be worth experimenting with bounties, although I’m not sure if people would actually offer to pay for posts.
In the meantime, you can feel free to respond to one of the old threads (which will still appear in the “Recent discussion” feed), or my suggestion is to write a quick take about it (the rate of quick takes is currently low enough that you’ll get some attention on the frontpage).