If we had a tag called “Links” for posts that aren’t displayed on the front page, then we could have a “Hackernews”/ “Reddit” style section were people can share -without comment- external links related to EA or that could be discussed in the context of EA. This would be different from current “link posts” which might have a higher (imagined) bar to posting.
Along a similar lines, there could be a low effort way for the current Shortform function to emulate Twitter, where the ‘magic’ sorting algorithm also takes into account the length of the post.
You can simulate this in your head by blending r/effectivegiving with the current forum. Problem is I think it devalues forum posts a bit. Kinda like (but milder than) if a scientific publication allowed authors to submit Tweets.
Personally, I’d be more excited about people just using those platforms—Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Quora, Tiktok, etc to discuss EA-related arguments, and for EA orgs to offer prizes for that, rather than shoehorning activities into the forum.
The main draw of Hackernews is that the people on it are quite smart and so it might be nice to have it on the forum.
But I agree that the r/effectivealtruism sub is not that good in terms of quality of discussing and what gets upvoted and would benefit from core EA people engaging and voting more there.
If we had a tag called “Links” for posts that aren’t displayed on the front page, then we could have a “Hackernews”/ “Reddit” style section were people can share -without comment- external links related to EA or that could be discussed in the context of EA. This would be different from current “link posts” which might have a higher (imagined) bar to posting.
Along a similar lines, there could be a low effort way for the current Shortform function to emulate Twitter, where the ‘magic’ sorting algorithm also takes into account the length of the post.
You can simulate this in your head by blending r/effectivegiving with the current forum. Problem is I think it devalues forum posts a bit. Kinda like (but milder than) if a scientific publication allowed authors to submit Tweets.
Personally, I’d be more excited about people just using those platforms—Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Quora, Tiktok, etc to discuss EA-related arguments, and for EA orgs to offer prizes for that, rather than shoehorning activities into the forum.
The main draw of Hackernews is that the people on it are quite smart and so it might be nice to have it on the forum.
But I agree that the r/effectivealtruism sub is not that good in terms of quality of discussing and what gets upvoted and would benefit from core EA people engaging and voting more there.