Agree-vote (✅) with this comment if you think you will probably be personally happier with the Forum if we make the change that we’re outlining in the post.
Disagree-vote (❎) if you think you will like the Forum less if we make the change.
Please use normal-strength votes (we’ll check for strong-agree-votes and cancel them). (We’re posting two comments as a quick poll to get a sense of what people who might be less comfortable commenting think. Please note that we won’t defer entirely to the results of these polls. See the other comment.)
I would want other people to see more of the good object-level posts, and give their feedback on them instead of the community posts. E.g. the current back-and-forth on the evidence on strongminds is to me more interesting and useful than many discussions on polyamory, HBD, or bay area houses. But I’m afraid it doesn’t get seen by people that might find it useful, or might have good feedback for the commenters there.
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.
Because I do want to read community posts sometimes and sometimes I might want to read other posts and having two taps that I can choose from depending on which type of post I want to read is a great way to do that.
My need is to have Community posts on the front page in one place, easy to reach and without jumping into the separated Topic section of the forum. This change would suffice my need.
This can also be achieved by clicking on the Community filter and changing the sorting filter from Relevant to Magic (New & Upvoted) but this means one extra click with the sorting, where I cannot change the default sorting.
Clicking on the filter to get into the topics section of the Community brings me into a whole new site without the useful hyperlinks on the left side. Replacing it with a list of who wrote the description of the topic header, which is not useful for me on a daily basis.
Agree-vote (✅) with this comment if you think you will probably be personally happier with the Forum if we make the change that we’re outlining in the post.
Disagree-vote (❎) if you think you will like the Forum less if we make the change.
Please use normal-strength votes (we’ll check for strong-agree-votes and cancel them). (We’re posting two comments as a quick poll to get a sense of what people who might be less comfortable commenting think. Please note that we won’t defer entirely to the results of these polls. See the other comment.)
Everyone who agree-voted here, may I ask why you don’t configure your own feed to ignore community posts right now?
I want to be able to see them, but not have them be the main thing that I see.
I guess I could remove them from the frontpage and regularly check https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/community?sortedBy=new but I had never thought about it and feels like effort.
I would want other people to see more of the good object-level posts, and give their feedback on them instead of the community posts. E.g. the current back-and-forth on the evidence on strongminds is to me more interesting and useful than many discussions on polyamory, HBD, or bay area houses. But I’m afraid it doesn’t get seen by people that might find it useful, or might have good feedback for the commenters there.
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.
Because I do want to read community posts sometimes and sometimes I might want to read other posts and having two taps that I can choose from depending on which type of post I want to read is a great way to do that.
My need is to have Community posts on the front page in one place, easy to reach and without jumping into the separated Topic section of the forum. This change would suffice my need.
This can also be achieved by clicking on the Community filter and changing the sorting filter from Relevant to Magic (New & Upvoted) but this means one extra click with the sorting, where I cannot change the default sorting.
Clicking on the filter to get into the topics section of the Community brings me into a whole new site without the useful hyperlinks on the left side. Replacing it with a list of who wrote the description of the topic header, which is not useful for me on a daily basis.