On a related but different note, I wish there was a way to combine conversations on cross-posts between EA Forum and LW. I really like the way AI Alignment Forum works with LW and wish EA Forum worked the same way.
A related point is that at least once I’ve seen something that was posted to both sites without the author noting that. This means users won’t even know to check the other site for more comments, let alone having them automatically visible from the first site they were on.
Not sure how often this happens. Maybe it’s not a big deal.
Also not sure if there’s a good technical fix for this. My first thought is an opt-in checkbox that always appears on either site to ask “Do you want this to also appear as a cross-post on [other site]?” (which would fix it because then presumably no one would bother manually making a cross-post, and the automated cross-post would always say at the top that it’s a cross-posted). But that might lead to too many cross-posts (I don’t know).
The best fix—if this is even a semi-regular problem in the first place—might just be to occasionally prominently mention the option of cross-posting and that one should label posts as cross-posts when one does so. Or just to comment on the relevant posts when one happens to notice that this has happened.
On a related but different note, I wish there was a way to combine conversations on cross-posts between EA Forum and LW. I really like the way AI Alignment Forum works with LW and wish EA Forum worked the same way.
Yeah, I agree with that.
A related point is that at least once I’ve seen something that was posted to both sites without the author noting that. This means users won’t even know to check the other site for more comments, let alone having them automatically visible from the first site they were on.
Not sure how often this happens. Maybe it’s not a big deal.
Also not sure if there’s a good technical fix for this. My first thought is an opt-in checkbox that always appears on either site to ask “Do you want this to also appear as a cross-post on [other site]?” (which would fix it because then presumably no one would bother manually making a cross-post, and the automated cross-post would always say at the top that it’s a cross-posted). But that might lead to too many cross-posts (I don’t know).
The best fix—if this is even a semi-regular problem in the first place—might just be to occasionally prominently mention the option of cross-posting and that one should label posts as cross-posts when one does so. Or just to comment on the relevant posts when one happens to notice that this has happened.