“The ‘community’ tag is problematic” by Arepo
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 [...] --- First published: August 29th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/4qS2BQpfi7sDwisPd/the-community-tag-is-problematic --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.