One use case for the forum is as a curated database of relevant writings, allowing for discussion and discovery, and perhaps useful for AI models. Perhaps it will be good to spam the forum with much more cross-posted content from blogs of relevant people and organizations.
If this is done on old posts, they shouldn’t appear on the frontpage, and automatically cross-posting should be possible and simple in current tech.
We did a bit of ad hoc cross-posting last year and it was fairly successful (one of the ‘top 10 most valuable’ posts was cross-posted by our team—thanks @Dane Valerie).
I’d be careful with cross-post spamming, since we should only crosspost with consent from the author. But if you want to crosspost a lot of content at once to the Forum for reasons of curation, you might want to untick the frontpage checkbox (i.e. personal blog the posts), and put them in a sequence.
“Automatically cross-posting should be possible and simple in current tech”—I think this has unfortunately not proved true for us, but maybe tech is just better this year.
One use case for the forum is as a curated database of relevant writings, allowing for discussion and discovery, and perhaps useful for AI models. Perhaps it will be good to spam the forum with much more cross-posted content from blogs of relevant people and organizations.
If this is done on old posts, they shouldn’t appear on the frontpage, and automatically cross-posting should be possible and simple in current tech.
We did a bit of ad hoc cross-posting last year and it was fairly successful (one of the ‘top 10 most valuable’ posts was cross-posted by our team—thanks @Dane Valerie).
I’d be careful with cross-post spamming, since we should only crosspost with consent from the author. But if you want to crosspost a lot of content at once to the Forum for reasons of curation, you might want to untick the frontpage checkbox (i.e. personal blog the posts), and put them in a sequence.
“Automatically cross-posting should be possible and simple in current tech”—I think this has unfortunately not proved true for us, but maybe tech is just better this year.