Fairly strongly agreed—I think it’s much easier to express disagreement than agreement on the margin, and that on the margin people find it too intimidating to post to the EA Forum and it would be better to be perceived as friendlier. (I have a somewhat adjacent blog post about going out of your way to be a nicer person)
I strongly feel this way for specific positive feedback, since I think that’s often more neglected and can be as useful as negative feedback (at least, useful to the person making the post). I feel less strongly for “I really enjoyed this post”-esque comments, though I think more of those on the margin would be good.
An alternate approach would be to PM people the positive feedback—I think this adds a comparable amount to the person, but removes the “changing people’s perceptions of how scary posting on the EA Forum is” part
Fairly strongly agreed—I think it’s much easier to express disagreement than agreement on the margin, and that on the margin people find it too intimidating to post to the EA Forum and it would be better to be perceived as friendlier. (I have a somewhat adjacent blog post about going out of your way to be a nicer person)
I strongly feel this way for specific positive feedback, since I think that’s often more neglected and can be as useful as negative feedback (at least, useful to the person making the post). I feel less strongly for “I really enjoyed this post”-esque comments, though I think more of those on the margin would be good.
An alternate approach would be to PM people the positive feedback—I think this adds a comparable amount to the person, but removes the “changing people’s perceptions of how scary posting on the EA Forum is” part