I don’t think it’s because I “suggested” it. I think it’s almost certainly the prize money + the fact that I heavily promoted the contest through all of CEA’s channels, because CEA is running and funding it. I also shared it with many individual writers I admire, the rational fiction subreddit, etc.
Thus, many more people have seen this than see most Forum posts. It’s not “bias”, just sheer numbers. (Other people are welcome to promote their own posts in lots of places — in fact, we encourage it!)
If you spent $10,000 on prizes for people who did useful things in the community building / EA messaging space, and that happened to be attached to a post, it seems extremely obvious that this is okay. See, for example, EA Funds sharing information about how to apply for grants.
People have suggested story competitions before, but this has gotten way more upvotes. Why?
I guess it’s because there is a 10k prize and because Aaron suggested it.
If we were getting too biased to the person writing forum articles rather than the quality of those articles, how would we know?
I don’t think it’s because I “suggested” it. I think it’s almost certainly the prize money + the fact that I heavily promoted the contest through all of CEA’s channels, because CEA is running and funding it. I also shared it with many individual writers I admire, the rational fiction subreddit, etc.
Thus, many more people have seen this than see most Forum posts. It’s not “bias”, just sheer numbers. (Other people are welcome to promote their own posts in lots of places — in fact, we encourage it!)
Yeah I think your behaviour here is fine. But imagine I spent $10,000 advertising a post I wrote. Would that be okay? The question interested me.
If you spent $10,000 on prizes for people who did useful things in the community building / EA messaging space, and that happened to be attached to a post, it seems extremely obvious that this is okay. See, for example, EA Funds sharing information about how to apply for grants.