The EA forum is a forum with just two categories so it functions more like a news board, which means most conversation ends up happening in bespoke Facebook groups for various causes, careers and interest groups. Facebook has a similar problem of losing good posts and conversations, which might have been stickied in a traditional forum with multiple categories and sub-categories.
There may be advantages to having these discussions happen on Facebook as people might be more likely to check, although it does make it hard to find out where the conversations are happening.
Agreed that subforums are a good idea, but the way they’re done on facebook seems particularly bad for creating common knowledge, because (as you point out) they’re so scattered. Also the advantage of people checking facebook more is countered, for me, by the disadvantage of facebook being a massive time sink, so that I don’t want to encourage myself or others to go on it when I don’t have to. So it would be ideal if the solution could be a modification or improvement to the EA forum—especially given that the code for curation already exists!
The EA forum is a forum with just two categories so it functions more like a news board, which means most conversation ends up happening in bespoke Facebook groups for various causes, careers and interest groups. Facebook has a similar problem of losing good posts and conversations, which might have been stickied in a traditional forum with multiple categories and sub-categories.
There may be advantages to having these discussions happen on Facebook as people might be more likely to check, although it does make it hard to find out where the conversations are happening.
Agreed that subforums are a good idea, but the way they’re done on facebook seems particularly bad for creating common knowledge, because (as you point out) they’re so scattered. Also the advantage of people checking facebook more is countered, for me, by the disadvantage of facebook being a massive time sink, so that I don’t want to encourage myself or others to go on it when I don’t have to. So it would be ideal if the solution could be a modification or improvement to the EA forum—especially given that the code for curation already exists!