A different approach. It seems that the prize is designed to improve incentives for writing high-quality posts. This is arguably not as important as other routes for better information flow, communication, coordination and epistemics. Perhaps people are already motivated enough to write posts, and are motivated enough to write them well. Perhaps they are even motivated for either of these too strongly (as opposed to other means of impacts and fleshing out less baked thoughts).
So several alternatives might be:
prize for best distillation, explanation or collection
prize for best (unfunded) volunteer community project
prize for best public conversation/debate/anti-debate.
prize for most important errors in arguments.
prize for general supportive and welcoming comments by a user over different occasions.
A different approach. It seems that the prize is designed to improve incentives for writing high-quality posts. This is arguably not as important as other routes for better information flow, communication, coordination and epistemics. Perhaps people are already motivated enough to write posts, and are motivated enough to write them well. Perhaps they are even motivated for either of these too strongly (as opposed to other means of impacts and fleshing out less baked thoughts).
So several alternatives might be:
prize for best distillation, explanation or collection
prize for best (unfunded) volunteer community project
prize for best public conversation/debate/anti-debate.
prize for most important errors in arguments.
prize for general supportive and welcoming comments by a user over different occasions.