Viliam comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam 18 November 2015 08:39:11AM 7 points [-]

Right now there's four tiers: open thread, discussion, main, and main promoted.

And the "main" tier is actually worse than the "discussion" tier. :(

So I'd recommend removing only the dysfunctional part, and have: open thread, discussion, discussion promoted.

Comment author: hg00 19 November 2015 07:20:22AM 1 point [-]

As far as I can tell "promoted" is meaningful because (a) there's a promoted RSS feed (b) it goes to the LW twitter feed. Posts get "promoted" by people who have admin powers, but most of the users with admin powers left a while ago. I think I would kill "promoted" and maybe make it so if you discussion post gets at least +4 or something it goes to the old promoted RSS feed and the twitter feed.