Thanks so much for all of these ideas! Would you be up for submitting these as separate comments so that people can upvote them separately? We’re interested in knowing what the forum thinks of the ideas people present.
Some of this has been said in threads above, but I don’t think that upvotes are a very good way of knowing what the forum thinks. People are definitely not reading this whole thread and the first posts they see will likely get all of their attention.
On top of that, I do not expect forum karma to be a good indicator of much even in the best case. People tend to upvote what they can understand and what is interesting and useful to them. I suspect what the average EA forum user finds useful and interesting is probably only loosely related with what a large EA grantmaker should fund. For instance, in general good writing is a very good way to get upvotes, but that doesn’t correlate much with the strength of the ideas presented.
Thanks so much for all of these ideas! Would you be up for submitting these as separate comments so that people can upvote them separately? We’re interested in knowing what the forum thinks of the ideas people present.
Some of this has been said in threads above, but I don’t think that upvotes are a very good way of knowing what the forum thinks. People are definitely not reading this whole thread and the first posts they see will likely get all of their attention.
On top of that, I do not expect forum karma to be a good indicator of much even in the best case. People tend to upvote what they can understand and what is interesting and useful to them. I suspect what the average EA forum user finds useful and interesting is probably only loosely related with what a large EA grantmaker should fund. For instance, in general good writing is a very good way to get upvotes, but that doesn’t correlate much with the strength of the ideas presented.
Apologies. I tried. The forum definitely thinks I’m spamming it with fourteen comments, but we’ll see how it goes.
You have to pause for about 30s between comments