Hey Dan, just to clarify for you and other readers, this post wouldn't be eligible for the competition, because a) we aren't accepting pieces that have already been published and b) every entry must be submitted via the entry form. 

Sorry if this wasn't clear in the announcement post! I'll edit it next week to make this plainer. 

We updated the policy in a way that you guys might both like :) We're using Pangram to assign a label, and there is no longer any need for manual disclosure. 

Thanks both for your thoughts! (This won't be exactly what either of you had in mind, but I'm sure your feedback fed into it).

It looks like we had a pretty massive bot attack last night, with over 600 accounts logging in and messaging users about an iPad scam. Please don't click on any of their links. The scam looks like this:

We'll remove the accounts, and karma-gate messaging to 10 karma so that this cannot happen again. Sorry everyone - and thanks so much to everyone who reported this. I can't respond to all of you, but thank you. 

I agree, that's where most of the conversation went, plus the critique of cultured meat was - as far as I recall - less developed than the rest in the post itself. I look forward to your post - let me know if you're ever looking for feedback :)

Curated means this post gets pinned to the top of the frontpage for a week, and it'll have a star next to its name forever. In practice it means it'll get more readership. 

I'm curating this post. 

I often say that not every post on the Forum has to look like an academic paper, but it's awesome that we do get carefully researched and in depth content like this! 

I really appreciate this post, especially after animal welfare has an evidence problem highlighted some concerns with cultivated meat last month. 

Thanks @PabloAMC 🔸, and thanks @BruceF for some particularly valuable comments. 

Looks like the refactor led to a few days of analytics data getting a little messed up. If you've been checking your analytics and seeing zero reads on your post for the last few days, this is why. Should be fixed from now. 
 

Update- looks like this seemed like a particular issue this week because some part of the refactor broke the algo. Should be fixed now. 

I imagine you all could often whitelist certain users or just glance at a post and tell that it is worth pushing through without reading it

Yep this is true. Though it's perhaps not reassuring to new authors lol. 

">15 karma + many curated new posts by the moderation team"

My current plan is >100 karma, and loads of 'featured' posts by the moderation team for the featured page, and then keeping the frontpage as is. Once I've built this thing there will be a lot of room for experimentation with the algorithm though. 

We'll definitely be doing (3), hopefully in the next few weeks. 

"It doesn't appeal to me because I want higher info density" - fair! 

How about a normal list of posts but still on a 'featured' page. In other words, these would be the best posts, chosen by the Forum team. 

Sort of like the Digest, but all the time, and without the organisation updates and most of community, and with the addition of good recent discussion.