Toby Tremlettđš
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Hello! I'm Toby. I'm Content Strategist at CEA. I work with the Online Team to make sure the Forum is a great place to discuss doing the most good we can. You'll see me posting a lot, authoring the EA Newsletter and curating Forum Digests, making moderator comments and decisions, and more.Â
Before working at CEA, I studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, and worked for a couple of years on a range of writing and editing projects within the EA space. Recently I helped run the Amplify Creative Grants program, to encourage more impactful podcasting and YouTube projects. You can find a bit of my own creative output on my blog, and my podcast feed.
How others can help me
Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.
How I can help others
Reach out to me if you're worried about your first post, want to double check Forum norms, or are confused or curious about anything relating to the EA Forum.
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Ah, this isn't true of the Forum in general, just this competition. On the Forum in general, I care about people reading and discussing ideas which might change their minds for the better - this includes text that's already been written but hasn't been much read or discussed. For this competition, I want to generate new discussion of the ideas contained in the book, and ideally find some new Forum authors. Therefore, the competition is focused on new content.Â
Thanks for sharing it Noah! The offer of feedback extends to them.Â
"On the one hand, low context people writing can hurt the quality of the average post or comment" I think this is a good point, even though the karma system does a decent job of bounding the effect that low context writing hurts the Forum user experience.Â
We have some internal quality metrics, and we're working on more to help us keep an eye on this. If it (too much low quality content) becomes a major issue, there are steps we can take (more of a rigorous on-boarding process for example, or a larger percentage of posts being moved to personal blog, or a 'rejected' page).Â
Either way, it's not something that individual authors should worry about when considering whether to post.Â
I'm always excited to see these - in my opinion, this is the missing cause prioritisation research we speak of.Â
One thing is that emojis are pretty rare on the Forum (despite being popular in places like LinkedIn and some slacks), so they sometimes make things appear more salesy/ even LLM generated.Â
In my opinion, your text itself doesn't seem to salesy or overly persuasive.