Interesting- for what it’s worth, I often make frontpage vs community decisions and I don’t think of community as relegating content. Often, there is less community content each day, so community posts stick around for longer than frontpage posts. In some cases, I’d assume it would be better for engagement to be tagged community. I haven’t looked at the stats on this, so I don’t know for sure if my impression is correct.
I agree that I don’t think it’s in-practice relegating content. Many of the highest karma posts are still “Community” posts. I’ve heard a user tell me that they just scroll down to the “Community” section when they come to the Forum (possibly a joke but this feels like a joke that has some truth to it). I think it does mean that newcomers to the site will be less likely to see those posts, but that is intentional (we think those posts are less relevant to newcomers).
I also agree that the intention was to essentially “correct” how much attention these kinds of posts were getting, because using only karma (plus recency) for sorting meant that they were overweighted. I believe the “Community” section is still valuable for essentially the same reasons as before (for example, I think it would be a mistake to assume that there will not be major drama/scandals discussed here in the future, and I think that would be worse without a “Community” section).
However, I don’t have a strong opinion about the definition of “Community”, nor even if this section should remain “Community” or if it should have some totally different criteria. I’m quite supportive of criticism so I could see the case for updating this system to put more criticism of EA in the Frontpage. It’s likely our team will revisit this in the next few months.
Interesting- for what it’s worth, I often make frontpage vs community decisions and I don’t think of community as relegating content. Often, there is less community content each day, so community posts stick around for longer than frontpage posts. In some cases, I’d assume it would be better for engagement to be tagged community. I haven’t looked at the stats on this, so I don’t know for sure if my impression is correct.
I agree that I don’t think it’s in-practice relegating content. Many of the highest karma posts are still “Community” posts. I’ve heard a user tell me that they just scroll down to the “Community” section when they come to the Forum (possibly a joke but this feels like a joke that has some truth to it). I think it does mean that newcomers to the site will be less likely to see those posts, but that is intentional (we think those posts are less relevant to newcomers).
I also agree that the intention was to essentially “correct” how much attention these kinds of posts were getting, because using only karma (plus recency) for sorting meant that they were overweighted. I believe the “Community” section is still valuable for essentially the same reasons as before (for example, I think it would be a mistake to assume that there will not be major drama/scandals discussed here in the future, and I think that would be worse without a “Community” section).
However, I don’t have a strong opinion about the definition of “Community”, nor even if this section should remain “Community” or if it should have some totally different criteria. I’m quite supportive of criticism so I could see the case for updating this system to put more criticism of EA in the Frontpage. It’s likely our team will revisit this in the next few months.