Let us take a moment to remember the good ole' days when a moderator demoting your post to Discussion was the cause of much weeping and gnashing of teeth.
I like that neologism, thanks for sharing it. I googled it to find this:
“Humbition is one part humility and one part ambition. We notice that by far the lion’s share of world-changing luminaries are humble people. They focus on the work, not themselves. They seek success–they are ambitious–but they are humbled when it arrives. They know that much of that success was luck, timing, and a thousand factors out of their personal control. They feel lucky, not all powerful… So be ambitious. Be a leader. But do not belittle others in your pursuit of your ambitions. Raise them up instead. The biggest leader is the one washing the feet of others.”
-Jane Harper, a 30-year veteran of IBM, and a group of her colleagues
Is it possible for Main posts to also be listed on Discussion but have an added highlight effect around their title or something? Then people can tell they're Main while now having to check a rarely used side subreddit.
Bravo for taking a step in a novel direction. Main is not useful any longer.
Time and live experience will tell if these changes will work well (hard for me to conceptualize the proposals sans real traffic...), but what exists is broken. So why not try an innovation.
The Main / Discussion division has served us well in the past, but traffic to Main has dropped to the point that it's no longer useful. In particular, the low visibility meant that authors would often have to choose between more karma and being seen by more readers. So posting to Main has been disabled, and the successor of Main is on its way. In the meantime, please move everything to discussion.
Save it as a draft, let me know, and I'll move it to Main for you.
We can still promote posts (and will).
What's the point of having multiple subreddits? If you have a single website with several different communities, then having different subreddits allows for different rules, different moderators, and different focuses. But LW has many interests that don't seem to cleanly separate into multiple subreddits. Many distinctions overlap, and tags seem better. So there are two main paths forward:
1) Tagging, 'new to you', and customization based on tags.