“This is all to benefit some fraction of users, maybe a quarter, who can then hide short posts.”
It’s interesting that you view this more from the reader’s perspective. Perhaps a good idea since readers are in the majority. To me the main benefit would be for the posters. It can be daunting to post a simple question (perhaps about an issue that confuses you) in a place where everyone will see it among a bunch of thought-out posts. Therefore I would welcome giving posters the ability to check “minor” if their post meets the criteria according to their own judgement. Even in the discussion section of LW some users including myself are literally too shy to post certain kinds of questions/content. I just wanted to bring that too attention.
Certainly this should wait until after the karma requirement is decreased to see how things develop then. I am assuming that things won’t radically change, but that’s a judgement call.
My intuition is that with an option like the one Jess suggested there would be a lot more posts in general, would you agree? If that’s the case and the kinds of posts that we currently see should be visible just like they are now, except there’s a checkbox “display minor posts” somewhere. This sounds to me like a forum that people would describe as uncomplicated. All in all this approach seems less complicated to me than having dedicated threads titled ‘ask a stupid question’ etc.
“This is all to benefit some fraction of users, maybe a quarter, who can then hide short posts.”
It’s interesting that you view this more from the reader’s perspective. Perhaps a good idea since readers are in the majority. To me the main benefit would be for the posters. It can be daunting to post a simple question (perhaps about an issue that confuses you) in a place where everyone will see it among a bunch of thought-out posts. Therefore I would welcome giving posters the ability to check “minor” if their post meets the criteria according to their own judgement. Even in the discussion section of LW some users including myself are literally too shy to post certain kinds of questions/content. I just wanted to bring that too attention.
Certainly this should wait until after the karma requirement is decreased to see how things develop then. I am assuming that things won’t radically change, but that’s a judgement call.
My intuition is that with an option like the one Jess suggested there would be a lot more posts in general, would you agree? If that’s the case and the kinds of posts that we currently see should be visible just like they are now, except there’s a checkbox “display minor posts” somewhere. This sounds to me like a forum that people would describe as uncomplicated. All in all this approach seems less complicated to me than having dedicated threads titled ‘ask a stupid question’ etc.