Posts that focus on the EA community itself are given a “community” tag. By default, these posts will have a weighting of “-25″ on the Forum’s front page (see below), appearing only if they have a lot of upvotes.
I wonder if this negative weighting for the Frontpage should be greater and/or used more, as I worry that the community looks too gossip-y/navel-gazing to newer users. E.g. I’d classify the 13 posts currently on the Frontpage (when not logged in) as only talking about more object-level stuff around half of the time:
Tagged ‘Community’
On funding, trust relationships, and scaling our community [PalmCone memo]
Some unfun lessons I learned as a junior grantmaker
On being ambitious: failing successfully & less unnecessarily
About the community but not tagged as such
Revisiting the karma system
High Impact Medicine, 6 months later—Update & Key Lessons [tagged as ‘Building effective altruism’]
Unclear
Introducing Asterisk [tagged as ‘Community projects’]
Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes: $120k for written work on global health and wellbeing
Monthly Overload of EA—June 2022
Not about the community
Types of information hazards
Will there be an EA answer to the predictable famines later this year?
Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Open Philanthropy Cause Exploration Prize Submission
Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
From the Forum user manual:
I wonder if this negative weighting for the Frontpage should be greater and/or used more, as I worry that the community looks too gossip-y/navel-gazing to newer users. E.g. I’d classify the 13 posts currently on the Frontpage (when not logged in) as only talking about more object-level stuff around half of the time:
Tagged ‘Community’
On funding, trust relationships, and scaling our community [PalmCone memo]
Some unfun lessons I learned as a junior grantmaker
On being ambitious: failing successfully & less unnecessarily
About the community but not tagged as such
Revisiting the karma system
High Impact Medicine, 6 months later—Update & Key Lessons [tagged as ‘Building effective altruism’]
Unclear
Introducing Asterisk [tagged as ‘Community projects’]
Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes: $120k for written work on global health and wellbeing
Monthly Overload of EA—June 2022
Not about the community
Types of information hazards
Will there be an EA answer to the predictable famines later this year?
Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa: Open Philanthropy Cause Exploration Prize Submission
Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
I agree that −25 may not be enough at the current stage, maybe −75 or −100 will be better.