“The ‘community’ tag is problematic” by Arepo
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It was originally introduced as a way to separate out FTX-scandal related tags. Now that that purpose is no longer relevant it serves as a noisy but biased way of de facto deprioritising posts. It's also very top-down: ironically, the community can't tag or untag community; only CEA can do that. I worry this has lead to a consistent bias in CEA posts not receiving the tag - see e.g. this recent post, which is about as community-oriented as anything I've seen on the forum. [1]
As an experiment, see if you can guess without looking which of the following shuffled set of posts received the tag and which didn't:
- EA Summit: Santiago 2025 – Retrospective
- How important are differing cultural attitudes toward corruption?
- The anti-fragile culture
- Good Governance: Unweirding Boards
- EA Organization Updates: August 2025
- A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!
- Why I'm excited about AI [...]
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First published: August 29th, 2025
Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4qS2BQpfi7sDwisPd/the-community-tag-is-problematic
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