This post is long because there are a lot of myths and misconceptions about sexual violence. To have accurate ideas about the effective altruism potential of sexual violence reduction as a cause, one needs to be informed about a bunch of things at once. Given the complexity of the issue and the number of common misconceptions, a long length was the only way to do this topic justice.
This is a foundation article. Now that it exists, a series of short articles can be written based on the information and context contained in it to help raise awareness.
(As explained to Denise.)
So, yes, it’s a long and complicated post, and there are certain downsides to that, which you have described pretty clearly. I’m sorry about the post formatting. It didn’t paste over very well from Google Docs. I’m currently working on editing the HTML version to fix all the formatting issues, so at least that should be improved soon. :)
I am not sure I understand your reasoning for having this as one long post instead of (say) a series of three posts, still covering all the content. This would still allow people to be linked back to it as a foundational resource (either by linking to the most relevant post for them, or just to the start of the series, telling them to read them all).
The reason is because the topic is simply too complicated, there is too much ignorance, and there are too many myths. If I published anything shorter it would seem to be full of holes to the reader.
I hope to have the time to write a series of shorter articles in the future. Even if I don’t do this, I bet other people will. People have already begun expressing interest in this.
The ball is rolling. The short articles will come.
This still does not obviously ring true to me as an advantage over one long article vs a series covering the same content. Still, it is written up now, and I think you will have your hands full replying to the other comments, so I am happy to let it be :)
This post is long because there are a lot of myths and misconceptions about sexual violence. To have accurate ideas about the effective altruism potential of sexual violence reduction as a cause, one needs to be informed about a bunch of things at once. Given the complexity of the issue and the number of common misconceptions, a long length was the only way to do this topic justice.
This is a foundation article. Now that it exists, a series of short articles can be written based on the information and context contained in it to help raise awareness.
(As explained to Denise.)
So, yes, it’s a long and complicated post, and there are certain downsides to that, which you have described pretty clearly. I’m sorry about the post formatting. It didn’t paste over very well from Google Docs. I’m currently working on editing the HTML version to fix all the formatting issues, so at least that should be improved soon. :)
I am not sure I understand your reasoning for having this as one long post instead of (say) a series of three posts, still covering all the content. This would still allow people to be linked back to it as a foundational resource (either by linking to the most relevant post for them, or just to the start of the series, telling them to read them all).
Glad to hear about the formatting :)
The reason is because the topic is simply too complicated, there is too much ignorance, and there are too many myths. If I published anything shorter it would seem to be full of holes to the reader.
I hope to have the time to write a series of shorter articles in the future. Even if I don’t do this, I bet other people will. People have already begun expressing interest in this.
The ball is rolling. The short articles will come.
This still does not obviously ring true to me as an advantage over one long article vs a series covering the same content. Still, it is written up now, and I think you will have your hands full replying to the other comments, so I am happy to let it be :)