A TCF Reader Poll
*Henny Youngman voice* take my survey, please!
My approximate understanding of Substack is that it’s about depth over breadth. That is to say: the maximum audience size of even very large substacks (never mind my own) is much smaller than the maximum audience of, say, a very successful tweet or article on a major aggregator. At the same time, you all have provided me with a high-quality signal that you want to consume more of my opinions, because all of you have signed up to read my Substack. (Some of you even like and comment!)
But I don’t actually know what you read me for, or why you read me. I also don’t know what sort of content you want from TCF. But I am a loyal servant of the content gods, so I am posting this series of polls to try to get some ideas.
If you like TCF, please take two minutes to answer the below!
I would appreciate additional comments in the replies. Vote early, vote often!
Definitely want to explain my "votes".
I came here originally because of your great post about "disorder" (so I selected that as the reason I came) but definitely interested in other subjects as well. I would say post about anyrthing where you have something interesting to say versus being focused on a topic. And cross posting is definitely fine if it's interesting.
And while I definitely would be interested in you doing more to build community, I would like to see you do so mainly by engaging in the comments here on Substack versus creating a Discord server or doing live chats or running a book.club. I have absolutely zero interest in the idea of Discord server; AMAs/live chats/and book clubs are potentially more interesting but I would probably prefer that energy go to more posts.
Enjoyed your recent response to the Abudance discourse. Would like see more engagement with other folks, especially with people who you respect but have a different perspective.
I enjoy the crime/disorder stuff just like apparently everybody else does. But the other two categories are much harder to find elsewhere. I especially liked the history of the drug war series you did. Histories of various facets of crime / disorder might be interesting. And based on the polling, they might have something that everybody likes.