As a datum from the LessWrong side as a moderator, when the crossposting was first implemented, initially there were a bunch of crossposts that weren’t doing well (from a karma perspective) and seemed to be making the site worse. To address this, we added a requirement that to crosspost from EAF to LW, you need 100 karma on LW. I believe the karma requirement is symmetrical: in order to crosspost an LW post onto EAF, you need 100 EAF karma
The theory being, a bit of karma shows that you probably have some familiarity with the crosspost-destination site culture, and probably aren’t just crossposting out of a vague sense of wanting to maximize your post’s engagement. I don’t think it’s been a problem (in the EAF->LW crossposting direction) since.
While I think some threshold barrier is a good idea, I don’t think the UX makes it clear that’s happening. I’ve never been able to successfully crosspost, and just realized this is probably why..
As a datum from the LessWrong side as a moderator, when the crossposting was first implemented, initially there were a bunch of crossposts that weren’t doing well (from a karma perspective) and seemed to be making the site worse. To address this, we added a requirement that to crosspost from EAF to LW, you need 100 karma on LW. I believe the karma requirement is symmetrical: in order to crosspost an LW post onto EAF, you need 100 EAF karma
The theory being, a bit of karma shows that you probably have some familiarity with the crosspost-destination site culture, and probably aren’t just crossposting out of a vague sense of wanting to maximize your post’s engagement. I don’t think it’s been a problem (in the EAF->LW crossposting direction) since.
This was a clever solution. I didn’t know this was a thing.
While I think some threshold barrier is a good idea, I don’t think the UX makes it clear that’s happening. I’ve never been able to successfully crosspost, and just realized this is probably why..