Sometimes you want to find a list of all posts on fish welfare, but sometimes you want to find all posts announcing prizes, all motivational posts, or the like. In other words, sometimes we want to collect posts by their type. Below is a list of types of posts.

This post also describes different types of content that you might see on the Forum.

Content-type

• Writing formats

  • Collections and resources

  • Research summary or distillation

  • Exercises

  • Humor (and April Fools’ Day)

  • Motivational

  • Postmortems & retrospectives

  • Obituary

  • Effective altruism art and fiction

    • Existential risk fiction

  • Quotes

  • Criticism

    • Red teaming

    • Criticism of effective altruist causes

    • Criticism of effective altruism

    • Criticism of effective altruist organizations

    • Criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies

• About other types of content

  • Books

  • Documentaries

  • Effective altruism in the media

  • News relevant to effective altruism

• Information type

  • Intervention evaluation

  • Forecasting

  • Disentanglement research

  • Teaching materials

  • Models

  • Surveys

  • Data (EA Community)

  • Good things & impact stories

  • Effective altruism in the media

  • News relevant to effective altruism

  • Newsletters

  • Postmortems & retrospectives

  • Independent impression

• Languages and ways to interact with posts

  • Audio

  • Effective altruism in French

  • Effective altruism in Spanish

Practical

Action

• Take action

• Opportunities

  • Funding opportunities

  • Job listing (open)

  • Prizes

  • Bounty (open)

  • Requests (open)

  • Funding request (open)

  • Application announcements

  • Student projects

Advice

• Discussion norms

• Productivity

• College advice

• Personal development

• Career choice (see more career choice topics)

• Writing advice

• Personal experiences

  • Job profile

  • Community experiences

  • Effective altruism lifestyle

  • Self-care

  • Personal development

Effective Altruism Forum

• Open thread

• Wikis

• Forum Review

Ways of selecting posts

• Classic repost

• Review crosspost

• Forum Prize