I’ve looked at a few threads on the subreddit over there the last few weeks and unfortunately it seems to me like the quality of much of the discourse there is significantly worse on average than I’ve seen in any EA Facebook group. It doesn’t seem like a great way for new people to hear about EA for the first time. I’m not sure what should be done to improve the situation.
Maybe an 80⁄20 to improve it would be to write some new high quality intro / overview posts and pin them to the top indefinitely? Maybe have a copy of the EA Forum Digest pinned to the top until the next one comes out, with an archive of past digests saved there? Having the date of the digest in the title might get more people who go to the subreddit to click on it.
I’m not a moderator of the Reddit space, but I’ll see if I can find out who is. Having a few pinned resources seems helpful. It looks to have grown quite a bit since I last saw it, and I’ve updated more toward wanting to fix it up a bit.
Agree, would be great to have all active online EA discussion platforms (Facebook, reddit etc.) moderated at least a little bit to make sure as many people as possible have a good experience engaging with EA content (and not just those on the EA forum).
I agree that the discussion in that subreddit is not very good.
Do you think it would be a good idea to encourage EAs in other spaces to upvote a post about this and have it be the most upvoted post on the sub? So people see it when they sort by top of all time. Currently the most upvoted post is at 261, not a lot.
Reasons against this:
-Vote manipulation or something
-Maybe such a post could leave a negative impression of EA (framing is very important here)
-Such a post could stay in the top even after the subreddit becomes better, although in that case it could just be strikethrough’d with an edit on top saying the post is not relevant any more.
I think that would be good to do in addition to a pinned post.
I would strongly argue against this, primarily because it is against Reddit’s rules. Although subreddits do get to choose many of the policies in their own space, vote manipulation is a rule that is enforced site-wide.
This seems useful. I’m curious if CEA would consider having this contractor also do something to improve what’s happening over at the EA subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/
I’ve looked at a few threads on the subreddit over there the last few weeks and unfortunately it seems to me like the quality of much of the discourse there is significantly worse on average than I’ve seen in any EA Facebook group. It doesn’t seem like a great way for new people to hear about EA for the first time. I’m not sure what should be done to improve the situation.
Maybe an 80⁄20 to improve it would be to write some new high quality intro / overview posts and pin them to the top indefinitely? Maybe have a copy of the EA Forum Digest pinned to the top until the next one comes out, with an archive of past digests saved there? Having the date of the digest in the title might get more people who go to the subreddit to click on it.
I’m not a moderator of the Reddit space, but I’ll see if I can find out who is. Having a few pinned resources seems helpful. It looks to have grown quite a bit since I last saw it, and I’ve updated more toward wanting to fix it up a bit.
Agree, would be great to have all active online EA discussion platforms (Facebook, reddit etc.) moderated at least a little bit to make sure as many people as possible have a good experience engaging with EA content (and not just those on the EA forum).
I agree that the discussion in that subreddit is not very good.
Do you think it would be a good idea to encourage EAs in other spaces to upvote a post about this and have it be the most upvoted post on the sub? So people see it when they sort by top of all time. Currently the most upvoted post is at 261, not a lot.
Reasons against this:
-Vote manipulation or something
-Maybe such a post could leave a negative impression of EA (framing is very important here)
-Such a post could stay in the top even after the subreddit becomes better, although in that case it could just be strikethrough’d with an edit on top saying the post is not relevant any more.
I think that would be good to do in addition to a pinned post.
I would strongly argue against this, primarily because it is against Reddit’s rules. Although subreddits do get to choose many of the policies in their own space, vote manipulation is a rule that is enforced site-wide.