Space in discussion is limited.
No, it isn't. Karma voting is good enough to be trusted with managing space concerns.
If you find that your posts get a negative karma score, then stop making those posts. Otherwise the community appreciates the posts and the amount of karma tells you for threads roughly how much.
On the other hand I have the feeling that weekly would be a bit too much to get optimal participation. There no reason to start with weekly. It's better to have a slower pace and keep up the project for longer.
I'd like to have a series of discussion posts, where each post is of the form "Let's brainstorm things you might consider when optimizing X", where X is something like sleep, exercise, commuting, studying, etc. Think of it like a specialized repository.
In the spirit of try more things, the direct benefit is to provide insights like "Oh, I never realized that BLAH is a knob I can fiddle. This gives me an idea of how I might change BLAH given my particular circumstances. I will try this and see what happens!"
The indirect benefit is to practice instrumental rationality using the "toy problem" provided by a general prompt.
Accordingly, participation could be in many forms:
* Pointers to scientific research
* General directions to consider
* Personal experience
* Boring advice
* Intersections with other community ideas, biases
* Cost-benefit, value-of-information analysis
* Related questions
* Other musings, thoughts, speculation, links, theories, etc.
This post is on sleep and circadian rhythms.