Somewhat agree, there are some concerns I have with totally silo’ing community:
1) People might mistag their posts community if they are actually about “building effective altruism”. E.g. posts like Community vs Network feel important and useful for professional movement builders (not just local group organizers). I could imagine people accidentally tagging something like this: Evidence from two studies of EA careers advice interventions as a community post or something.
Perhaps having a moderator occassionally check the community tag could be a good way to ensure that such things don’t happen.
2) There are a number of posts announcing new orgs e.g. Introducing Ayuda Efectiva which would be useful for folks to know to actually help the world directly (e.g. donate in Spain) - and it’s also nice to hear about new projects to do good on the frontapage.
Of course, it’s possible that once there is a much more obvious separation folks will know to avoid it. You could also add helpful language when people are drafting a post so they understand what it means for their post to be a community post. (e.g. rather than it just being 1 tag out of 10, you could have it on a separate line to emphasise it more, so people are more aware of it)
Re (1): We currently quickly check tags on posts, and a few people are working on tagging almost all new posts with at least a couple key tags (although there’s sometimes a delay — or mistakes/missed tags, which is natural, I think, given that tagging shouldn’t be taking up lots of resources). Keeping an eye on the Community section/tab to check that posts there should indeed be “Community” seems like a good idea. I agree that this change would put pressure on the tagging system (it’ll be more important to get tagging right).
Re (2): My hope is that people will check the “Community” section if they want to keep up with “meta” projects, and I tend to share a lot of announcements in the Forum Digest, so that might also be an option for keeping up. Also, just a quick note: announcements from non-”Community”-oriented projects (e.g. a new Charity Entrepreneurship-incubated charity) will still end up on the Frontpage.
Somewhat agree, there are some concerns I have with totally silo’ing community:
1) People might mistag their posts community if they are actually about “building effective altruism”. E.g. posts like Community vs Network feel important and useful for professional movement builders (not just local group organizers). I could imagine people accidentally tagging something like this: Evidence from two studies of EA careers advice interventions as a community post or something.
Perhaps having a moderator occassionally check the community tag could be a good way to ensure that such things don’t happen.
2) There are a number of posts announcing new orgs e.g. Introducing Ayuda Efectiva which would be useful for folks to know to actually help the world directly (e.g. donate in Spain) - and it’s also nice to hear about new projects to do good on the frontapage.
Of course, it’s possible that once there is a much more obvious separation folks will know to avoid it. You could also add helpful language when people are drafting a post so they understand what it means for their post to be a community post. (e.g. rather than it just being 1 tag out of 10, you could have it on a separate line to emphasise it more, so people are more aware of it)
Thanks for outlining these concerns.
Re (1): We currently quickly check tags on posts, and a few people are working on tagging almost all new posts with at least a couple key tags (although there’s sometimes a delay — or mistakes/missed tags, which is natural, I think, given that tagging shouldn’t be taking up lots of resources). Keeping an eye on the Community section/tab to check that posts there should indeed be “Community” seems like a good idea. I agree that this change would put pressure on the tagging system (it’ll be more important to get tagging right).
Re (2): My hope is that people will check the “Community” section if they want to keep up with “meta” projects, and I tend to share a lot of announcements in the Forum Digest, so that might also be an option for keeping up. Also, just a quick note: announcements from non-”Community”-oriented projects (e.g. a new Charity Entrepreneurship-incubated charity) will still end up on the Frontpage.