What sort of thing do you have in mind? Another poll post on the Forum about this specifically? EA Global feedback forms or the EA survey asking questions specifically about feeling uncomfortable (if they don’t already)? A Forum post sharing a questionnaire for group organisers to use and strongly encouraging them to use it? Making it a requirement of receiving group funding from Open Phil or CEA that you poll people about feeling uncomfortable at events?
I’m just expecting this will be upvoted because what could be wrong with getting more information? But I suspect a lot of people have a lot of this information already, there aren’t easy ways to collect, analyse and share such a poll very widely, and there’s always an opportunity cost in terms of people’s time and attention. There may well, however, be a concrete version of this that seems worth doing to me (and indeed I’ve pushed for something like this before on a small scale).
But that would imply I want them and I don’t. In fact I think the act of listing an answer here is a stronger signal that this is something the community wants than a mere vote is.
Also I cba to find out to find out what’s already in place. Part of my point here is that I think there should be a higher bar for saying how things should change than “EA should do more of this thing that sounds nice even though I don’t really know how much of it they already do and haven’t thought about how that might work in practice and what should be deprioritised accordingly.” So I think people like me who can’t be bothered to put a bit more effort in shouldn’t be making suggestions.
What sort of thing do you have in mind? Another poll post on the Forum about this specifically? EA Global feedback forms or the EA survey asking questions specifically about feeling uncomfortable (if they don’t already)? A Forum post sharing a questionnaire for group organisers to use and strongly encouraging them to use it? Making it a requirement of receiving group funding from Open Phil or CEA that you poll people about feeling uncomfortable at events?
I’m just expecting this will be upvoted because what could be wrong with getting more information? But I suspect a lot of people have a lot of this information already, there aren’t easy ways to collect, analyse and share such a poll very widely, and there’s always an opportunity cost in terms of people’s time and attention. There may well, however, be a concrete version of this that seems worth doing to me (and indeed I’ve pushed for something like this before on a small scale).
How about you write some answers and then people can upvote them?
But that would imply I want them and I don’t. In fact I think the act of listing an answer here is a stronger signal that this is something the community wants than a mere vote is.
Also I cba to find out to find out what’s already in place. Part of my point here is that I think there should be a higher bar for saying how things should change than “EA should do more of this thing that sounds nice even though I don’t really know how much of it they already do and haven’t thought about how that might work in practice and what should be deprioritised accordingly.” So I think people like me who can’t be bothered to put a bit more effort in shouldn’t be making suggestions.