All of Peter Hase's Comments + Replies

Sorry, I was suggesting a system in which instead of first posting to LW via the LW interface, you just directly submit to the AIAF, without ever having to think about or go to LW. Then, there is a submission queue that is only visible to some moderators of the AIAF that decides whether your content shows up on both LW and the AIAF, or on neither. This would make it more similar to classical moderated comment-systems. I think a system like this would be clearer to users, since it's relatively common on the internet, but would also have the problems I described. One specific problem with having a submission + admin-review system is that the user has to invest a lot of resources into writing a post, and then only after they invested all of those resources do they get to know whether they get any benefit from what they produced and whether their content (which they might have spent dozens of hours writing) is accepted. This is I think one of the primary things that creates a lot of resentment, and when I talk to people considering publishing in various journals, this is often one of the primary reasons they cite for not doing so. When designing systems like this, I try to think of ways in which we can give the user feedback at the earliest level of investment, and make incremental benefit available as early as possible. The current system is designed that even if your post doesn't get promoted to the AIAF, you will likely still get some feedback and benefit from having it on LW. And also, it tries to set expectations that getting a post onto the AIAF is more like a bonus, and the immediate level of reward to expect for the average user, is what you get from posting on LW, which in my experience from user-interviews causes people to publish earlier and faster and get more feedback before getting really invested, in a way that I think results in less resentment overall if it doesn't get promoted.  I do think some people see very little reward in posting to LW instead