Organisation Badges/Tags next to author names on posts/comments
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I generally dislike when people write posts from their organisation—I think that it’s hard to know who exactly I’m talking to, it’s difficult to know what messages are from the author vs from the org, and it generally feels a bit intimidating to talk to ‘Givedirectly’ as opposed to Sally who works at Givedireclty.
I do understand the desire for organisations to say things as the org—maybe when someone posts in a professional capacity, there could be an option to post/comment with a little organisation tag next to your name. When you mouse over it, it says whether this means that it’s to be taken as the organisation’s position or not or whatever capacity the person is speaking in. I’d also like a strong norm against organisational forum accounts being the sole/main post posters (though tagging it as Open Phil or Givedirectly or whatever seems good to me).
For posts, I feel like the solution is to add the organization as a coauthor. It’s what rethink does, for example. I agree we could probably go further in the direction of discouraging org accounts from being the only author.
Agree that posts as a coauthor works well and doesn’t require implementing any new features. Maybe someone should write a frontage post discussing this at some point and that would be enough?
Organisation Badges/Tags next to author names on posts/comments
(sent through Intercom before I remembered that this existed)
I generally dislike when people write posts from their organisation—I think that it’s hard to know who exactly I’m talking to, it’s difficult to know what messages are from the author vs from the org, and it generally feels a bit intimidating to talk to ‘Givedirectly’ as opposed to Sally who works at Givedireclty.
I do understand the desire for organisations to say things as the org—maybe when someone posts in a professional capacity, there could be an option to post/comment with a little organisation tag next to your name. When you mouse over it, it says whether this means that it’s to be taken as the organisation’s position or not or whatever capacity the person is speaking in. I’d also like a strong norm against organisational forum accounts being the sole/main post posters (though tagging it as Open Phil or Givedirectly or whatever seems good to me).
For posts, I feel like the solution is to add the organization as a coauthor. It’s what rethink does, for example. I agree we could probably go further in the direction of discouraging org accounts from being the only author.
Agree that posts as a coauthor works well and doesn’t require implementing any new features. Maybe someone should write a frontage post discussing this at some point and that would be enough?