Make a weekly top comments page on Metaculus

[ryooan]

SimonM, a user from years ago, used to run metaculusextras, which had a number of cool metrics about Metaculus, including top comments of the week. He would also tweet these out: https://x.com/MetaculusExtras/status/1454860114452697090

I think we should have a dedicated page for this on Metaculus to encourage good comments and reward them with attention and kudos, and would also love if we tweeted these out every week (@christianMet what do you think?).

The goal is to reward good comments and encourage users to make more good comments.

Tangential but possibly related, I also think it would be great to have an all comments feed, so you can sort them by new, hot, or top in the past week / month, etc. But this is largely separate and I think it's higher value to just do the top comments of the week dedicated page first if it's not more efficient to do these together.

[ryooan]

Made an issue for tracking this @SylvainChevalier .

[SylvainChevalier]

@aseckin let's try to time-box this and maybe have a not-very-polished version? If not we'll make it a project for better tracking.

Further requirements:

• Show this week's top comments, and also previous weeks behind a click.
• Exclude people with medal exclusion records.

[aseckin]

Can we reliably generate similar summaries without human intervention? @ryooan @SylvainChevalier

[aseckin]

If we can generate those, they are super helpful for putting the comment in the right context before the need for actually consuming the comment. Very basic prototype of what that could look like, placed in the Feed Sidebar.

[ryooan]

Unless it's quick to set up an LLM pipeline to create those summaries maybe we just skip that for the MVP and only show the comment? Summaries in Tweets could be done manually until we have an LLM pipeline.

[aseckin]

without the summaries, it could look like this:

[aseckin]

Some implementation details:

• Weekly Top Comments is added to the feed sidebar
• By default, it displays the latest completed week (weeks start on Monday and ends on Sundays)
• Users can switch between weeks using the navigation element up top.
• At launch, we only display top comments from 3 weeks before. (If we launched today, Feb3-9, Feb10-16 and Feb17-23 would be available)
• Only top 10 comments are shown for each week. Main criteria is upvotes
• As soon as a week ends, its top comments are identified and the week's page is populated.
• Would be nice if the URL structure was in a nice readable format when showing and navigating between each week

anything else you'd like to add? @ryooan @SylvainChevalier

[draaglom]

love this idea

[christianMet]

Yes, support the idea and would help with the tweet element.

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[SylvainChevalier]

lgtm.