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AnnaSalamon comments on Is GiveWell.org the best charity (excluding SIAI)? - Less Wrong
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Why does this post have so few upvotes? The author is committing money to make the world a better place, is being strategic about it, is putting forth a good argument for donating to Givewell directly in place of Givewell's recommended charities, and is starting useful conversation. I wish I could upvote it more than once.
Discussion is something of a ghetto. None of its comments or posts are linked in the sidebar, which directs a lot of LW traffic. I only saw this because I specifically subscribe the Discussion RSS feed.
If this were switched to the main article area with the concomitant traffic (to say nothing of the front page itself), I'd be very surprised if it wound up after a month with under 20 net upvotes.
It had 2 upvotes (one of them from me) when I typed the above, despite having been posted for most of the time it has currently been up and having attracted many comments. Low traffic wasn't the problem; I'd been wondering if it was because folks disagreed with the poster about where to donate, or what.
Nothing strange about it. My last Discussion post has a net of 5 upvotes (1/2 this) - and 57 comments (~3x more), very few of which point to any issue in the linked material which I had written.
Probably just because it turns out there have been other recent discussions of this, as TheOtherDave pointed out below. Maybe I should've looked more carefully through Discussion.