Each December, the LessWrong community reflects on the best blogposts of yesteryear, to decide which posts stood the tests of time.

In this post, I aim to:

Explain some subtleties of what I'm hoping we get out of the Annual Review
Make some explicit asks (even of busy people), which I think have reasonable cost/benefit ratios.
Describe the new UI features.

The most important changes are:

Reviews are much more prominent than they used to be
You can nominate posts from elsewhere on the internet using the Linkpost Importer. (Use this to nominate posts that contribute to the overall LessWrong or Alignment Forum conversation). It can import PDFs from arXiV, and blogposts from most urls.

For the Nomination Voting Phase, the main ask I'm making is: "spend ~30 minutes casting nomination votes, and write 2 short reviews explaining how you got value from the most important [...]