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Comment author: ChristianKl 25 March 2016 04:43:14PM 2 points [-]

The latter involves reading the article and determining whether our audience would find it appropriate.

Who's your target audience when you think that a Nigerian can make a good decision about whether your target audience would find an article appropriate?

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 26 March 2016 04:25:03PM 0 points [-]

What are you implying about Nigerians here?

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 March 2016 03:38:42AM 2 points [-]

That they are culturally different from Western people. They might be very well know what's culturally appropriate to post when trying to reach a Nigerian audience but Western culture is a bit different in lot's of aspects. The posts those people posted on LW look like they are not written by normal Western people but either by people who wrote them because they are payed to do so or by people who operate under different cultural norms.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 27 March 2016 07:48:23PM 0 points [-]

As I think I mentioned before, Intentional Insights tries to reach a global audience, and after the US, our top three countries are non-western. So it's highly valuable for us to have non-western volunteers/contractors who can figure out what would be salient to a diverse international audience.

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 March 2016 08:47:12PM 0 points [-]

Do you have other data about your impact in those countries besides passive reading numbers? Do you have links to the receptions of InIn content by non-western audiences besides those people you payed?

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 28 March 2016 02:07:08AM 1 point [-]

Links are hard, since most things I have are people writing to me. However, here is one relevant link. After finding out about our content, a prominent Indian secular humanist association invited me to do a guest blog for them. I was happy to oblige.