In practice, now with ~5 substantive texts written in the medium, it's pretty consistent that ~2-5% of readers engage with the prompts; 25-50% answer ~all (very length dependent); around half of those do any reviews.
What are the implications for authors and their incentives?
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If you have thousands of readers, only a few tens might actually review your material over time. Writing those prompts takes a lot of effort—is it "worth it"?
It's an easier case to make for "platform knowledge" like Quantum Country, which can draw 100k's of readers.
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One issue is that doing reviews for just one article worth of prompts is unsatisfying. The follow up sessions contain just one or two cards. The overhead of waiting for the site to load isn't worth it.
This would change when lots of authors use the same system
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The ideal situation would be when the prompts system integrates with my *local* anki installation. I hold out hope that this will happen in 3-4 years I hope to see much earlier more and more blogs/articles include prompts that aggregate at
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Yeah. I expect that problem to be solved this year with bidirectional Anki<>Orbit syncing.
That's great. I can help with programming aspects of this if that is a bottleneck.
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Thank you! May take you up on that in the coming months. :)
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