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Unnamed started Sequence Reruns back in 2011; they finished sometime in 2014, if I remember correctly.
My impression is that people found them useful, but that they didn't really kick off much discussion, and the discussions that they did kick off were now lower value because they were harder to find. (If I know that somebody had an insightful response to a question discussing a particular article, I can't just look in the comments of that article--I also need to check out the rerun page, and now I would also need to check out the book discussion page.
I expect we're better off having a sidebar link to the book reading group article of the day/week/etc., and encouraging people to post on old articles, than we are making new articles and reposting the content.
Any idea why not? Also, could be that the book version will increase interest. It could also be that we'll get an influx of new readers with the book's publication and HPMOR's conclusion, so that might help.
Encouraging people to link / quote insightful previous comments might mitigate this issue, at least somewhat. Also, the focus of the reading group would be mostly towards newer readers, so we wouldn't necessarily be aiming for super-high-value comments. That's not to say that people won't have important things to say, just that it's of secondary importance here.
From what I've seen about the glacial pace of edits to site mechanics, this is almost certainly not going to happen. Unless you know of an easy way to do it?
Having a sidebar will make for extremely low visibility, and I'm not sure exactly how to encourage people other than that.
My first guess would be that a big part of the target audience is lurkers, who shouldn't be expected to post all that much.
Changing the sidebar is the main thing that I have seen happen; I do think it would be much more likely to happen if a volunteer writes the required code.
Something in the sidebar would be great in any case. Any volunteers?
Any idea why not?
When I was reading the sequences in reruns I felt like a first student in a class in a glass box with ALL the graduates looking on and free to shoot down my ideas :-) Plus I am not a naturally prolific commenter...
Should help if we specifically ask people to be nice to newbies, as I suggested.
I like this idea, and if others do too I suggest voting for the similar option in ciphergoth's poll