[Meta] Open thread even more often?

Meetups should be a separate subreddit; they unnecessarily clutter the Discussion page.

Also, no matter how often the Open Threads will appear, people will still post Open Threads material in Discussion.

Open threads should be their own subreddit.

No matter how often you post open threads, people will not post in them right before a new one is posted, because others wont view it as much. The way to solve this is to add an entire open subreddit.

I've noticed a kind of "LW content inflation" over the years where what was once appropriate for Main becomes appropriate for Discussion and what was once appropriate for Discussion becomes appropriate for Open Thread. I don't know if this is a good thing or not. It seems like if you are asking a question that has an unambiguous answer then you should clearly post in Open Thread because it's fairly wasteful for additional people to see your question after it's already been answered; beyond that I'm not sure.

I like the idea of topics per day of the week, and it'd be worth trying.

It may also be worth making the rationality diary into weekly self-improvement open threads, where you can just post about how much progress you're making, which systems you're using etc.

I fear the thread will wither and die before Friday.

What do you mean? People seem to post in the last days of the 'week' with a reasonable frequency, however, I fear that making the OT a daily thing will just result in more Discussion clutter, less visibility of other threads and less visibility of comments in the OTs.

As a subjective indication I got the feeling that the quality postings somewhat reduced recently.

Could it be that more frequent open threads discourage from self-contained postings?

That would imply that "comments inevitably expand to fill the available room" because this effect is increased.

I like the open threads a lot. I feel far more comfortable bringing up a topic in an open-thread than presenting it as a formal post.

If the open thread seems too cluttered, which I don't have a problem with, it might make more sense to make dedicated subthreads within it for different kinds of content than clutter the discussion page with different kinds of open threads.

I don't think the proposal is a good idea: it adds a trivial inconvenience to posting, and adds more noise to discussion making it harder to find the latest actually open thread. I predict the result would be at least one of: people post in the wrong section, people ignore a number of the categories, or people post less overall.

I'm in favour of more frequent open thread posts, but I think they should remain a single open thread. (Actually if I were making changes I'd probably fold the media recommendation posts into the open threads).

Weekly might be too often for stupid questions threads-- the stupid questions don't seem to build up all that quickly. A thread every month or two might work better.

It seems to me people post less on weekends. They might want to spend their free time some other way and browse LW at work. Adding more open threads would do nothing to this phenomenom.

Except in some argumentation exercises (which I hope won't be the majority of Monday posts), any question (not just the stupid ones) is an admission of ignorance.