Yeah, I think I’d personally lean towards letting the thing Brian is describing be covered by the Requests (Open) tag. This is partly because, as Brian notes, “lots of authors (or most authors) would want feedback on their posts anyway, and it’s hard separating which ones are feedback requests and which ones aren’t.”
I’m also not really sure I understand the distinction, or the significance of the distinction, between that wanting feedback on an external doc before sharing it more beyond the EA community and wanting feedback on a post before that, or an adapted form of that, is shared beyond the EA community. (One part of my thoughts here is that I think a decent portion of posts may ultimately make their way into things shared beyond the EA community, and sometimes the authors won’t be sure in advance which posts those are. E.g., MacAskill’s hinge of history post is now an academic working paper.)
That said, I’ve also appreciated the existence of Slack channels where people can solicit feedback from colleagues. (I’ve appreciated that both as an author and as a person who enjoys being helpful by giving feedback.) And the EA Editing & Review facebook group seems to demonstrate some degree of demand for this sort of thing in EA. So maybe there’s a stronger case for the tag than I’m currently seeing.
(OTOH, maybe the need could be well-met just by using the Requests (Open) tag and posting in EA Editing & Review?)
Yeah, I think I’d personally lean towards letting the thing Brian is describing be covered by the Requests (Open) tag. This is partly because, as Brian notes, “lots of authors (or most authors) would want feedback on their posts anyway, and it’s hard separating which ones are feedback requests and which ones aren’t.”
I’m also not really sure I understand the distinction, or the significance of the distinction, between that wanting feedback on an external doc before sharing it more beyond the EA community and wanting feedback on a post before that, or an adapted form of that, is shared beyond the EA community. (One part of my thoughts here is that I think a decent portion of posts may ultimately make their way into things shared beyond the EA community, and sometimes the authors won’t be sure in advance which posts those are. E.g., MacAskill’s hinge of history post is now an academic working paper.)
That said, I’ve also appreciated the existence of Slack channels where people can solicit feedback from colleagues. (I’ve appreciated that both as an author and as a person who enjoys being helpful by giving feedback.) And the EA Editing & Review facebook group seems to demonstrate some degree of demand for this sort of thing in EA. So maybe there’s a stronger case for the tag than I’m currently seeing.
(OTOH, maybe the need could be well-met just by using the Requests (Open) tag and posting in EA Editing & Review?)
If a Feedback Request tag is made, perhaps it’d be worth linking in the tag description to Giving and receiving feedback, Asking for advice, and/or Discussion Norms?