Also, probably no harm, but I feel like ~everyone on EAF would already know about GWWC so there is somewhat less marketing value?
I agree most people on EAF know about GWWC, but I guess seeing the yellow diamonds could still be a nice prompt to consider taking the 10 % Pledge. There is the potential for causing harm if EAF users overtake the pledge due to social pressure to conform, but I guess it is good to promote activities which are generally good. Posts about effective giving and kidney donations could lead to too much donations or kidney donations, but such posts seem to be generally considered good.
I also feel like it would be strange to promote the yellow diamonds to the outside world, but not on EA Forum on the basis that its users are already optimally considering taking or not the 10 % Pledge, such that adding yellow diamonds to the names of pledgers would make people overtake the pledge.
I agree with all this. If any Forum moderators are reading this, perhaps they could share instructions for how to update our display names? (Bizarrely, I can’t find any way to do this when I go to edit my profile.)
Thanks for the update, Alana! @MathiasKB, I noticed you added the yellow diamond to your EA Forum user name. How did you update it?
@MathiasKB🔸 fyi (I think your tag didn’t work Vasco—it becomes a link to the user’s EAF profile if successful)
Also, probably no harm, but I feel like ~everyone on EAF would already know about GWWC so there is somewhat less marketing value?
Thanks for actually tagging Mathias, Oscar!
I agree most people on EAF know about GWWC, but I guess seeing the yellow diamonds could still be a nice prompt to consider taking the 10 % Pledge. There is the potential for causing harm if EAF users overtake the pledge due to social pressure to conform, but I guess it is good to promote activities which are generally good. Posts about effective giving and kidney donations could lead to too much donations or kidney donations, but such posts seem to be generally considered good.
I also feel like it would be strange to promote the yellow diamonds to the outside world, but not on EA Forum on the basis that its users are already optimally considering taking or not the 10 % Pledge, such that adding yellow diamonds to the names of pledgers would make people overtake the pledge.
I agree with all this. If any Forum moderators are reading this, perhaps they could share instructions for how to update our display names? (Bizarrely, I can’t find any way to do this when I go to edit my profile.)
You should be able to change it here: https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​account
Maybe non-moderators can only change it once, to prevent abuse?
If anyone doesn’t see that option, just send me a DM and I can change it or ask the admins
Unfortunately, I can’t see that option — it just displays my email.