I can’t speak for everyone, but will quickly offer my own thoughts as a panelist: 1. Short and/or informally written submissions are fine. I would happily award a tweet thread it if was good enough. But I’m hesitant to say “low effort is fine”, because I’m not sure what else that implies. 2. It might sound trite, but I think the point of this contest (or at least the reason I’m excited about it) is to improve EA. So if a submission is totally illegible to EA people, it is unlikely to have that impact. On “style of argument” I’ll just point to my own backlog of very non-EA writing on mostly non-EA topics. 3. I wouldn’t hold it against a submission as a personal matter, and wouldn’t dismiss it out of hand, but it’s definitely a negative if there are substantive mistakes that could have been avoided using only public information.
I can’t speak for everyone, but will quickly offer my own thoughts as a panelist:
1. Short and/or informally written submissions are fine. I would happily award a tweet thread it if was good enough. But I’m hesitant to say “low effort is fine”, because I’m not sure what else that implies.
2. It might sound trite, but I think the point of this contest (or at least the reason I’m excited about it) is to improve EA. So if a submission is totally illegible to EA people, it is unlikely to have that impact. On “style of argument” I’ll just point to my own backlog of very non-EA writing on mostly non-EA topics.
3. I wouldn’t hold it against a submission as a personal matter, and wouldn’t dismiss it out of hand, but it’s definitely a negative if there are substantive mistakes that could have been avoided using only public information.