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I was thinking of how we could decrease the barriers to presenting ideas on LW.
Personally, when I think about writing something up here, I feel an unusually high need to make it high quality. That has the obvious benefit of encouraging people to make better stuff, but I've also felt it play out such that I just don't bother presenting.
How about a weekly thread for people to present 100-word half-baked, half-polished ideas explicitly for the purpose of seeing if people would like there to be something more substantial on the subject submitted to LW discussion? The discussion post can mention that this idea has been "vetted" by the Unpolished Ideas Thread, signaling both that
The writer did not expect this to necessarily be of universal appeal (modesty)
If it doesn't appeal to you, fine, but it does to some people, so don't be too quick to censure it (an invitation to modesty)
As in many things in life, allowing people to ease into something may greatly increase the chance that they'll do it at all, and allowing for these specific signals helps quell the social fears that bar presenting ideas on LW. .
This idea has a lot of overlap with the open thread. We could just edit the open thread to perform this function, but, the open thread is for more than that, really, and the more explicit we can make the signaling the better, I think.
Plus, this helps fulfill the idea in Hufflepuff LW Projects of allowing for a place for 100-word insights to be presented, adding to that an invitation for people to express if they'd like to hear more on the insight.
Thoughts?
How about a [stub] tag in the title?