Alicorn comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 22 April 2011 02:57:14AM *  7 points [-]

Blogroll / Side Bar Section for Links to Rationality Related Websites. I love Overcoming Bias, but it seems a bit biased that Overcoming Bias is the only other website linked from here.

I don't like this idea. The choice of websites to put on the sidebar is likely to be contentious. What exactly qualifies a website to be endorsed by LW? How should a website be judged considering the various PR implications of endorsing it? Also, who exactly stands behind the endorsement, considering that LW is a group blog?

What's more, LW members already have the option to put website links in their profiles, and the websites authored or endorsed by prominent LW contributors are thus already given significant promotion.

Comment author: Alicorn 22 April 2011 02:58:09AM *  5 points [-]

What's more, LW members already have the option to put website links in their profiles, and the websites authored or endorsed by prominent LW contributors are thus already given significant promotion.

It's not that significant. I watch my site traffic like a hawk and I get almost no hits from here.

Comment author: Vladimir_M 22 April 2011 03:10:15AM 3 points [-]

I think I've clicked on all profile links posted by people on the top contributors list at one time or another (and many others as well), but I guess I'm an exception then. What could be done is to make people's profile links more conspicuous and directly accessible, perhaps as a part of making profiles generally more informative for those who wish to make them so. (I think someone already mentioned the idea of merging them with wiki profiles.)

Comment author: ameriver 25 April 2011 04:31:42AM *  2 points [-]

FYI, I just tried to click through to your food blog from the link on your wiki userpage, and it is broken, I think.

Comment author: Alicorn 25 April 2011 04:41:28AM 0 points [-]

Fixed, thanks.