Solvent comments on Efficient Charity: Cheap Utilons via bone marrow registration - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Solvent 29 January 2012 05:41:40AM 0 points [-]

Possible point for consideration: Some people look at discussion and not main. I don't know if anyone reads main and not discussion.

But yeah, sure. I'm not annoyed at you.

Comment author: atorm 29 January 2012 06:40:08AM 1 point [-]

I actually didn't realize until now that articles don't pop up in the Main RSS unless they are upvoted to a certain value. Do you think I'd get more eyes on this if it were in Discussion rather than Main?

Comment author: Solvent 29 January 2012 06:58:18AM *  1 point [-]

I don't know. Maybe. What's that certain value?

Comment author: Swimmer963 29 January 2012 04:58:36PM 1 point [-]

From the Less Wrong FAQ:

Posts are "promoted" to the front page by the editors on the basis of substantive new content, clear argument, good writing, popularity, and importance. The posts with karma totals in green disks instead of gray circles have been promoted.

Comment author: atorm 29 January 2012 03:58:33PM 1 point [-]

I don't actually know. For all I know, articles become Promoted when Eliezer likes them enough to do background things in the blog. Maybe I should repost this in Discussion as well. I might worry that that would irritate people who see it twice, though.

Comment author: Swimmer963 29 January 2012 04:59:35PM 0 points [-]

I might worry that that would irritate people who see it twice, though.

You could post a disclaimer at the beginning: "This article is also posted in Main; however I want as many people as possible to see it. Please ignore if you have already read it."

Comment author: wedrifid 29 January 2012 05:06:36PM 0 points [-]

I actually didn't realize until now that articles don't pop up in the Main RSS unless they are upvoted to a certain value.

Does this apply to the RSS feed for plain old main or just the RSS feed for promoted main? I seem to find my RSS feed (the first link) is reasonably complete so if there is a karma requirement there it isn't a high one.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 29 January 2012 04:16:22PM 0 points [-]

I read discussion almost exclusively.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 January 2012 05:01:46PM 0 points [-]

I read recent comments (and posts that constitute the parents of interesting recent comments) almost exclusively. This seems to amount to much the same thing. For some bizarre reason the most interesting discussion occurs in 'discussion'.

Comment author: Dustin 29 January 2012 07:59:49AM 0 points [-]

I rarely read discussion.

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