Hi Peter, thanks for the feedback! To respond to the things that others haven’t already responded to:
We hope to keep working on the typography to improve things.
We are definitely aiming for a lighter touch to moderation than on LW: we’ve deleted the “curated” section, and we want karma to sort out what ends up on the Frontpage. The main moderation decisions we’ll be taking are policing the Community/Frontpage distinction, commenting to encourage good discourse norms, and sending messages to people where they could improve their discourse. The norms we’re trying to promote are set out in the moderation policy, and are focused on tone/style etc. We’d love people to help us out by enforcing good norms, and by checking that we’re following the policy. The main reason that we want to be a little more active is to provide users with more positive feedback, and fewer difficult responses, so that they’re encouraged to engage more. I don’t think the current Forum is particularly bad at this, but I would like to see another nudge in that direction. I’d be interested how that sounds to you?
I would like to see a sidebar eventually. Currently we want to focus on rebuilding in some elements from LW (like sequences, and their map of local groups), but this is on our long-list
Although we’ve removed curated, we are aiming to reintroduce the sequences feature (NB these are significantly less obtrusive once you’re logged in). The reasoning behind this is that we expect some new people to come to the Forum, and we think it’s good that they are initially sent to more introductory material. We also think that it’s valuable to have some set of common knowledge for the community. This is a way to cement intellectual progress: rather than rebuilding the same wall, there can be an (expanding) set of core ideas which we can build on. Users will be able to create their own sequences, and we are consulting about what sort of things should be in the core sequences, which are most visible. We want the core sequences to be representative of the community.
Hi Peter, thanks for the feedback! To respond to the things that others haven’t already responded to:
We hope to keep working on the typography to improve things.
We are definitely aiming for a lighter touch to moderation than on LW: we’ve deleted the “curated” section, and we want karma to sort out what ends up on the Frontpage. The main moderation decisions we’ll be taking are policing the Community/Frontpage distinction, commenting to encourage good discourse norms, and sending messages to people where they could improve their discourse. The norms we’re trying to promote are set out in the moderation policy, and are focused on tone/style etc. We’d love people to help us out by enforcing good norms, and by checking that we’re following the policy. The main reason that we want to be a little more active is to provide users with more positive feedback, and fewer difficult responses, so that they’re encouraged to engage more. I don’t think the current Forum is particularly bad at this, but I would like to see another nudge in that direction. I’d be interested how that sounds to you?
I would like to see a sidebar eventually. Currently we want to focus on rebuilding in some elements from LW (like sequences, and their map of local groups), but this is on our long-list
Although we’ve removed curated, we are aiming to reintroduce the sequences feature (NB these are significantly less obtrusive once you’re logged in). The reasoning behind this is that we expect some new people to come to the Forum, and we think it’s good that they are initially sent to more introductory material. We also think that it’s valuable to have some set of common knowledge for the community. This is a way to cement intellectual progress: rather than rebuilding the same wall, there can be an (expanding) set of core ideas which we can build on. Users will be able to create their own sequences, and we are consulting about what sort of things should be in the core sequences, which are most visible. We want the core sequences to be representative of the community.
Bug report has been filed for Ctrl + K
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/meta isn’t intended to be a link (we’ve called this subforum “Community” rather than “meta” (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/community)). I’m guessing you’re referring to the sidebar link, which I’ll ask that we remove.