Tentative suggestion: Maybe try to find a way include info about how much karma the post has near the start of the episode description, in the podcast feed?
Reasoning:
This could help in deciding what to listen to, at least for the “all audio” feed. (E.g. I definitely don’t have time for even just all AI-related episodes in there.)
It could also led to herd-like behavior or ignoring good content that didn’t get lots of karma right away. But I think that that is outweighed by the above benefit.
OTOH this may just be infeasible to do in a non-misleading way, if you put things in the feed soon enough after they’re posted that the karma hasn’t really stabilized yet* and if it’s hard to automatically update the description to reflect karma scores later.
*My rough sense is that karma scores are pretty stable after something like 3-7 days—stable enough that something like “karma after 5 days was y” is useful info—but that if you can only show karma scores after e.g. 1 day then that wouldn’t be very informative.
Thanks Michael, karma and author name do seem reasonable to add if we can easily keep episodes up to date from a technical perspective. Will put this on our list and work out how to prioritize it.
Tentative suggestion: Maybe try to find a way include info about how much karma the post has near the start of the episode description, in the podcast feed?
Reasoning:
This could help in deciding what to listen to, at least for the “all audio” feed. (E.g. I definitely don’t have time for even just all AI-related episodes in there.)
It could also led to herd-like behavior or ignoring good content that didn’t get lots of karma right away. But I think that that is outweighed by the above benefit.
OTOH this may just be infeasible to do in a non-misleading way, if you put things in the feed soon enough after they’re posted that the karma hasn’t really stabilized yet* and if it’s hard to automatically update the description to reflect karma scores later.
*My rough sense is that karma scores are pretty stable after something like 3-7 days—stable enough that something like “karma after 5 days was y” is useful info—but that if you can only show karma scores after e.g. 1 day then that wouldn’t be very informative.
Thanks Michael, karma and author name do seem reasonable to add if we can easily keep episodes up to date from a technical perspective. Will put this on our list and work out how to prioritize it.