I believe what you’re looking for is the personal blog distinction. Authors can decide that they want to post their writing on the Forum, but not submit it to the frontpage. Examples might be a post that is political, or if someone is dumping a larger number of posts. Devin actually did this, so you’ll notice that the posts you mentioned are in the personal blog category. If you’re seeing them on the frontpage, then my guess is you’ve customized your feed.
Ah yes, I think I changed a setting because I didn’t like that the mod team was flagging stuff as personal blog (during the Bostrom affair, was it?) that I didn’t think met the standard for that treatment. So I guess seeing Devin’s appendices on my frontpage is the price I pay for opting out of mod-directed personal blog designations!
Could we have a no-frontpage tag that authors can apply that would (e.g.) give −99999 karma adjustment to a post for frontpage purposes?
I think breaking up larger posts into appendices or parts (cf. the new alcoholism sequence) can be helpful but also could clog the frontpage.
I believe what you’re looking for is the personal blog distinction. Authors can decide that they want to post their writing on the Forum, but not submit it to the frontpage. Examples might be a post that is political, or if someone is dumping a larger number of posts. Devin actually did this, so you’ll notice that the posts you mentioned are in the personal blog category. If you’re seeing them on the frontpage, then my guess is you’ve customized your feed.
Ah yes, I think I changed a setting because I didn’t like that the mod team was flagging stuff as personal blog (during the Bostrom affair, was it?) that I didn’t think met the standard for that treatment. So I guess seeing Devin’s appendices on my frontpage is the price I pay for opting out of mod-directed personal blog designations!