I’m quite surprised to see this is the least upvoted of my ideas, as I thought it is a nice meta-suggestion and addresses a big constraint: capacity and coordination to get projects off the ground. Looking at the other suggestions, one think that jumps out is that they are very concrete and have a narrow scope—this makes it easier to see the value and easier to evaluate success, while this project is wider and has a lot left to fill in.
Could anyone comment why they are not upvoting this idea?
I didn’t see the comment previously (until I saw these comments asking about why it hadn’t been upvoted just now). I would speculate that one reason might be that the term ‘Hackathon’ is often associated just with programming or similar activities (which would be much less interesting than a general EA collective problem-solving event) and so people might have skimmed over it without reading the details.
Huh. It’s received 9 upvotes since my comment. Goes to show that upvotes reward early comments/answers earlier and answers to this questions should not be viewed as a poll!
I didn’t see this comment earlier. Having read it, this seems like one of the best ideas here and certainly worth trying. I would also be curious to see if there are strong arguments against this idea.
I’m quite surprised to see this is the least upvoted of my ideas, as I thought it is a nice meta-suggestion and addresses a big constraint: capacity and coordination to get projects off the ground. Looking at the other suggestions, one think that jumps out is that they are very concrete and have a narrow scope—this makes it easier to see the value and easier to evaluate success, while this project is wider and has a lot left to fill in.
Could anyone comment why they are not upvoting this idea?
I didn’t see the comment previously (until I saw these comments asking about why it hadn’t been upvoted just now). I would speculate that one reason might be that the term ‘Hackathon’ is often associated just with programming or similar activities (which would be much less interesting than a general EA collective problem-solving event) and so people might have skimmed over it without reading the details.
Huh. It’s received 9 upvotes since my comment. Goes to show that upvotes reward early comments/answers earlier and answers to this questions should not be viewed as a poll!
Definitely agreed here. It’s pretty frustrating, but there’s definitely a bias towards early things.
I didn’t see this comment earlier. Having read it, this seems like one of the best ideas here and certainly worth trying. I would also be curious to see if there are strong arguments against this idea.