Hi all,
Introducing Marcus Davis,
Marcus is an audio engineer from Chicago who read some philosophy and became interesting in effective altruism during college. Since then, he's become connected with a lot of effective altruists, especially through dot impact, where he's a regular contributor.
Marcus has generously offered to join me in moderating the forum. He'll do this from tonight until around early-mid may while he has some spare time at hand.
Our goal for moderation is the same as it's always been, to stay out people's the way and only to delete spam and harmful or destructive content. If you want to flag some content or if you have any other feedback, feel free to contact either one of us.
Marcus will also help out by maintaining our basic level of social media presence. If you are interested in helping promote EA articles, then that's also a great reason to get in contact.
Lastly, when Marcus gets back to his regular work in May, I'll be keen to see another moderator come on board so if you're interested, post me an email at ry.duff [at] gmail [dot] com.
Great to have you on-board, Marcus
I'm pretty excited to help out. Of course, as pointed by Ryan, if anyone has any pointers about spreading our reach more effectively on social media, I'm open to hearing them.
Maybe it could be someone's job to post links to new articles to a list of relevant venues, particularly non-EA ones?
Ryan and I were discussing doing that for different subreddits that a given post here might be of interest to. So if it's a post about medical interventions posting it in /r/medicine for example.
Of course, the Internet is a lot bigger than Reddit though so there are probably many venues related to philanthropy, productivity, philosophy, animal rights, medical interventions, etc. that posts here could be relevant to. I'm going to try to do what I can but I would appreciate guidance toward relevant venues and potentially help actually doing the work if it proves to be a huge task.
Nice. I've added that to the agenda of the next .impact meeting in case people can think of good places, and I'll let you guys know if I do. I imagine there's already good material out there that you could find on how to promote web content, including that on particular topics.
Yay Marcus!
Thanks for both of your work!