i would find it helpful to establish a norm to begin posts with a short (!) ‘tl;dr’-section which summarizes the main results/arguments of the article, since sometimes it is hard to tell what a post is about only from the title/the preview one gets by hovering over the link.
I think it’s already quite common for commenters on posts without these to request them; is there something in the UI you’d like to change to encourage this?
if im not mistaken, when you hover over the link to a post you just see the beginning of the post, right? this sometimes is not very useful. maybe you could give post creators another text field (“thumbnail”/”preview”/”tl;dr”) where they can explicitly fill in what should be shown when hovering over the link. this field should probably be character limited then. this text should be displayed at the top of the post, too. (and if posters dont fill it out it could just fall back to showing the beginning of the post).
What you describe is almost exactly identical to an admin feature that we have from LessWrong. Which isn’t much help to you yet, but might get released more widely.
i would find it helpful to establish a norm to begin posts with a short (!) ‘tl;dr’-section which summarizes the main results/arguments of the article, since sometimes it is hard to tell what a post is about only from the title/the preview one gets by hovering over the link.
I think it’s already quite common for commenters on posts without these to request them; is there something in the UI you’d like to change to encourage this?
if im not mistaken, when you hover over the link to a post you just see the beginning of the post, right? this sometimes is not very useful. maybe you could give post creators another text field (“thumbnail”/”preview”/”tl;dr”) where they can explicitly fill in what should be shown when hovering over the link. this field should probably be character limited then. this text should be displayed at the top of the post, too. (and if posters dont fill it out it could just fall back to showing the beginning of the post).
What you describe is almost exactly identical to an admin feature that we have from LessWrong. Which isn’t much help to you yet, but might get released more widely.
This needn’t be written by the author—it could be added by higher karma readers, for instance.
or written by anyone but approved by the author?
Yeah that works too.