I have mixed feelings here. I generally don’t like emotionally-focused posts, but I think having some good ones, properly contextualized, can be pretty useful. They can show insight into certain perspectives that are hard to grasp for more epistemically-ideal posts.
Maybe we could eventually have norms to flag that posts like these should be treated and understood very different to most evaluation posts. There’s the “Inspiration” tag, which is doing some of this, but I assume there’s more that could be done.
My intuition is that it’s very easy for people to tell that this is very different from most evaluation posts, and a flag wouldn’t add any new information, but it’s probably not harmful either.
I think the policy that I am currently most in favour of is for the moderators to implement (certainly not limited to just this post) is to keep these as personal posts and not promote to the front page unless they reach some standard of epistemic rigour.
Thanks for flagging this.
I have mixed feelings here. I generally don’t like emotionally-focused posts, but I think having some good ones, properly contextualized, can be pretty useful. They can show insight into certain perspectives that are hard to grasp for more epistemically-ideal posts.
Maybe we could eventually have norms to flag that posts like these should be treated and understood very different to most evaluation posts. There’s the “Inspiration” tag, which is doing some of this, but I assume there’s more that could be done.
My intuition is that it’s very easy for people to tell that this is very different from most evaluation posts, and a flag wouldn’t add any new information, but it’s probably not harmful either.
I think the policy that I am currently most in favour of is for the moderators to implement (certainly not limited to just this post) is to keep these as personal posts and not promote to the front page unless they reach some standard of epistemic rigour.