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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 May 2013 11:16:42PM 2 points [-]

Because Main is for higher-quality posts that people who don't read Discussion read, and then Promoted is for even higher-quality posts for people subscribed to the Promoted RSS feed?

Comment author: Baughn 10 May 2013 11:47:30PM 2 points [-]

All right, then how about we have a "promotion" axis separate from the "category" axis? Is there enough volume on the site for that, already?

Comment author: DanArmak 11 May 2013 08:59:15PM *  3 points [-]

You could just use the number of upvotes on an article. It would still require a code change, but I don't think we need a new source of data separate from upvotes, categories, and the existing promotion.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 May 2013 12:21:27AM 1 point [-]

That would require a code change.

Comment author: RobbBB 13 May 2013 02:06:16AM *  0 points [-]

What role do you have in mind for Discussion posts that you don't think should also hold for Main posts? (On your original conception of 'Discussion' and 'Main'.) Main-level posts like the Sequences also generally turn into active discussions, so I'm not clear on what is supposed to set Discussion apart.

Comment author: Baughn 13 May 2013 01:56:18PM 0 points [-]

The difference would be that it's only discussion, so you know what to expect.

Actually, a single Promotion axis plus tags would probably work better.

Comment author: RobbBB 13 May 2013 02:47:46PM *  0 points [-]

I agree that tags probably make more sense. I'm still not clear on what it means for a post or its comments to be 'only discussion'. Is the idea that the OP in a Discussion post is supposed to be as contentless as possible? Or is there something special about some comments that makes them Discussion comments, and others not?

Comment author: Baughn 13 May 2013 04:33:52PM 0 points [-]

Not much, no. What originally set me off was the type error of 'promoted - main - discussion', which seems like an axis that's taking two right angles.

Having three stages of promotion, plus tags, should be sufficient. At that, articles already have tags; we just need to use them a little better.

Comment author: Decius 11 May 2013 02:18:03AM 0 points [-]

Is main also for posts that garner high-quality discussion?