Personally during the recent donation discussions, I experienced it as a notable surge in the Forum feeling like a warm, nice place to be. Like a temporary surge in the Forum strongly reflecting the extent to which EA is a community full of caring, dedicated people; and letting you see them as people or something. I think it’d be nice if some of that energy continued somehow.
Throwaway idea: a monthly question-post/prompt from the Forum team, pinned for a while, that people can answer in the comments, or if they feel like it use as a prompt for writing full posts. And the questions are not so much aimed at like “answers will be novel intellectual contributions”, but more like that the answers will make it visible how individual people are thinking about common questions, putting ideas into practice in their life/career/donations etc?
Yes, humanity in EA is always good. The monthly (perhaps even weekly) question idea sounds brilliant, and a great way to get people easily engaged; especially the nonprofessionals like me, swinging by the forum on my short downtime, not feeling up to reading entire long posts, but happy to pass the time with prompted comments.
Personally during the recent donation discussions, I experienced it as a notable surge in the Forum feeling like a warm, nice place to be. Like a temporary surge in the Forum strongly reflecting the extent to which EA is a community full of caring, dedicated people; and letting you see them as people or something. I think it’d be nice if some of that energy continued somehow.
Throwaway idea: a monthly question-post/prompt from the Forum team, pinned for a while, that people can answer in the comments, or if they feel like it use as a prompt for writing full posts. And the questions are not so much aimed at like “answers will be novel intellectual contributions”, but more like that the answers will make it visible how individual people are thinking about common questions, putting ideas into practice in their life/career/donations etc?
(Am not attempting to address tradeoffs etc.)
Yes, humanity in EA is always good. The monthly (perhaps even weekly) question idea sounds brilliant, and a great way to get people easily engaged; especially the nonprofessionals like me, swinging by the forum on my short downtime, not feeling up to reading entire long posts, but happy to pass the time with prompted comments.