I’m lazy; I am not immune to the phenomenon where users reliably fail to apply optimization to their use of a website, despite their experience improving when such changes are made for them. (I suspect this perspective is underrepresented in the comments because fewer people are willing to admit it and it’s probably more common among lurkers.)
I consume content weighted in large part by how many upvotes it has, because that’s where the discussion is and it’s what people will be talking about. (Also because in my case most of my EA Forum reading comes from karma-gated RSS feeds, though I expect this to be uncommon.) This means that in an equilibrium of most attention going to community posts, I’ll read more of them, but I would be happy with a state of affairs that shifted the equilibrium to object-level posts.
I’m lazy; I am not immune to the phenomenon where users reliably fail to apply optimization to their use of a website, despite their experience improving when such changes are made for them. (I suspect this perspective is underrepresented in the comments because fewer people are willing to admit it and it’s probably more common among lurkers.)
I consume content weighted in large part by how many upvotes it has, because that’s where the discussion is and it’s what people will be talking about. (Also because in my case most of my EA Forum reading comes from karma-gated RSS feeds, though I expect this to be uncommon.) This means that in an equilibrium of most attention going to community posts, I’ll read more of them, but I would be happy with a state of affairs that shifted the equilibrium to object-level posts.