Open thread Jan. 5-11, 2015

polymathwannabe

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Should we have some sort of re-run for the various repositories we have? I mean, there is the Repository repository and it's great for looking things up if you know such a thing exists, but (i) not everyone knows this exists and more importantly, (ii) while these repositories are great for looking things up, I feel that not much content gets added to the repositories. For example, the last top-level comment to the boring advice repository was created in march 2014.

Since there's 12 repositories linked in the meta repository as of today, I suggest we spend each month of 2015 re-running one of them.

I'm not certain which form these re-runs should take, since IMO, all content should be in one place and I'd like to avoid the trivial inconvenience for visitors clicking on the re-run post and then having to click one more time.

Should there be some sort of re-run of the 12 repositories during 2015, one per month? [pollid:808]

Which form should the re-run have, conditional on there being one? [pollid:809]

By "advice in the comments", you mean new entries to the repositories, right? So you're suggesting that we fragment the repository through a number of separate comment sections, labeled by year, and that is a really awful way of organizing a global repository of timeless articles.

If you're worried about incumbents taking disproportionate precedence in the list(as more salient posts tend to get more attention; more votes; more salience), IIRC, reddits have a comment ordering that's designed to promote posts on merit rather than seniority. If that isn't sufficient to address incumbent bias then we should probably be talking about building a better one.

5[anonymous]11y

Why not a monthly post that links to all the respositories?, as a chance to add suggestions to them, and remind people that they're there. This could in fact be combined with a focus on a "specific' repository.