A quick guess is that a good way to implement this (once a definition for “old” posts is given) is to track instances of people upvoting an old post (or just karma accumulation of old posts).
Then some score based on this (which itself can decay) can be blended into the regular “hotness” mix, so the people can see some oldie goldies.
This might be better than “naively” scaling up posts by compensating for traffic, because:
in this idea, older posts will tend to be promoted by relevance (e.g some day EA can solve “really hard to find an EA job” and it doesn’t need to be as visible compared to an ongoing issue).
It also gives a new channel for low karma old posts (e.g. brilliant treatise ahead of its time) to reappear.
This also gives an incentive to actually upvote old posts, further helping to solve the problem.
Oh, this is wonderfwl. But to be clear, Occlumency wouldn’t be the front page. It would one of several ways to sort posts when you go to /all posts. Oldie goldies is a great idea for the frontpage, though!
A quick guess is that a good way to implement this (once a definition for “old” posts is given) is to track instances of people upvoting an old post (or just karma accumulation of old posts).
Then some score based on this (which itself can decay) can be blended into the regular “hotness” mix, so the people can see some oldie goldies.
This might be better than “naively” scaling up posts by compensating for traffic, because:
in this idea, older posts will tend to be promoted by relevance (e.g some day EA can solve “really hard to find an EA job” and it doesn’t need to be as visible compared to an ongoing issue).
It also gives a new channel for low karma old posts (e.g. brilliant treatise ahead of its time) to reappear.
This also gives an incentive to actually upvote old posts, further helping to solve the problem.
Oh, this is wonderfwl. But to be clear, Occlumency wouldn’t be the front page. It would one of several ways to sort posts when you go to /all posts. Oldie goldies is a great idea for the frontpage, though!
Hmm, maybe we are talking about different things, but I think the /all pages already breaks down posts by year.
So that seems to mitigate a lot of the problem I think you are writing about (less if within year inflation is high)?
I also think your post is really thoughtful, deep and helpful.
Oh. It does mitigate most of the problem as far as I can tell. Good point Oo
Your idea is still viable and useful!
There’s also valuable discussion and ideas that came up. IMO you deserve at least 80% of the credit for these, as they arose from your post.