1. Could analytics be displayed on the forum? I think it’d be interesting to people to see how many people read different posts. This is also related to the question re: the forum prize—I reckon many authors would be more motivated by seeing that their posts are widely read than by a cash prize.
2. I often see very long posts that jump right into the introduction without summary. Could one introduce a field that is mandatory if a posts is more than 300 words long that forces the author to provide a 200 characters (or so) summary? Or something like this:
On (2), we’ve considered adding a summary field in the editor, but I don’t think we’d make it mandatory unless we did so for a much larger character count. Whether or not we eventually implement that, I encourage anyone reading this to include summaries in their long posts!
Thanks for providing the Elsevier link—I could imagine us linking to that as an example of how one might compose a summary.
1. Could analytics be displayed on the forum? I think it’d be interesting to people to see how many people read different posts. This is also related to the question re: the forum prize—I reckon many authors would be more motivated by seeing that their posts are widely read than by a cash prize.
2. I often see very long posts that jump right into the introduction without summary. Could one introduce a field that is mandatory if a posts is more than 300 words long that forces the author to provide a 200 characters (or so) summary? Or something like this:
https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/highlights
could even be added by the mods.
On (2), we’ve considered adding a summary field in the editor, but I don’t think we’d make it mandatory unless we did so for a much larger character count. Whether or not we eventually implement that, I encourage anyone reading this to include summaries in their long posts!
Thanks for providing the Elsevier link—I could imagine us linking to that as an example of how one might compose a summary.