While thinking about what kind of feedback I would find useful for this question (after a couple of people having upvoted and no comments so far), I would’ve found a cheap poll with options like “Definitely not worth looking into this further” or “Probably uninteresting, but an interested EA might look into this more” very useful here. I wonder if this was discussed before, seems like an easy to implement and useful feature for quick and dirty feedback. Maybe downsides could be giving a wrong impression of EA consensus due to selection effects (e.g. most informed EAs being less active readers of the forum), or less in-depth discussion because people that would otherwise have shared their thoughts now only participate in the poll?
Polling the community in the forum
While thinking about what kind of feedback I would find useful for this question (after a couple of people having upvoted and no comments so far), I would’ve found a cheap poll with options like “Definitely not worth looking into this further” or “Probably uninteresting, but an interested EA might look into this more” very useful here. I wonder if this was discussed before, seems like an easy to implement and useful feature for quick and dirty feedback. Maybe downsides could be giving a wrong impression of EA consensus due to selection effects (e.g. most informed EAs being less active readers of the forum), or less in-depth discussion because people that would otherwise have shared their thoughts now only participate in the poll?