Suggestion: The author should have omitted the “Thoughts” section of this post and put the same content in a comment, and, in general, news posts should avoid subjective commentary in the main post.
Reasoning: The main content of this post is its report of EA-related news. This by itself is enough to make it worth posting. Discussion and opinions of this news can be done in the comments. By adding commentary you are effectively “bundling” a high-quality post with additional content, which grants this extra content with undue attention.
Note: This comment was not incited by any particular objection to the views discussed in this post. I also approve of the way you clearly separated the news from your thoughts on it. I don’t think the post goes outside the EA Forum’s community norms. Rather, I want to discuss whether shifting those community norms is a good idea.
you are effectively “bundling” a high-quality post with additional content, which grants this extra content with undue attention.
A post which simply quotes a news source could be criticized as not containing anything original and therefore not worth posting. Someone has already complained that this post is superfluous since a discussion already exists on Facebook.
Actually if I had to criticize my own post I would say its weakness is that it lacks in-depth analysis and research. Unfortunately, in-depth analysis takes a lot of time…
Posting news together with analysis, arguments, and a few opinions is great. If you find yourself posting news and polemics together, you should think really hard if they should rather be split.
Suggestion: The author should have omitted the “Thoughts” section of this post and put the same content in a comment, and, in general, news posts should avoid subjective commentary in the main post.
Reasoning: The main content of this post is its report of EA-related news. This by itself is enough to make it worth posting. Discussion and opinions of this news can be done in the comments. By adding commentary you are effectively “bundling” a high-quality post with additional content, which grants this extra content with undue attention.
Note: This comment was not incited by any particular objection to the views discussed in this post. I also approve of the way you clearly separated the news from your thoughts on it. I don’t think the post goes outside the EA Forum’s community norms. Rather, I want to discuss whether shifting those community norms is a good idea.
A post which simply quotes a news source could be criticized as not containing anything original and therefore not worth posting. Someone has already complained that this post is superfluous since a discussion already exists on Facebook.
Actually if I had to criticize my own post I would say its weakness is that it lacks in-depth analysis and research. Unfortunately, in-depth analysis takes a lot of time…
Posting news together with analysis, arguments, and a few opinions is great. If you find yourself posting news and polemics together, you should think really hard if they should rather be split.
I don’t think this post is too bad.