Ok, here is my idea so far for Macro Week
1) Similar structure to the first DD week. Line up a bunch of authors on Macroeconomic topics for a highlight week of either looking back at their prior work, updates on their prior work, or what new things they are focused on now.
2) I think October is a good month because its normally shit across the broad market which I think makes it less likely we'd see anything significant out of GME. if anything wild does occur, we can take a pause during the week activities
3) I think Macro is a good topic because we don't tend to see anything really divisive from those posts or bad actors. Those guys tend to reach for lower hanging fruit.
4) When this is proposed to the sub, give them a list of author's posts from prior on the sub and ask for people to sound off in the comments about which authors they would want mods to reach out to when organizing this week or if there are any missing ones they can be nominated too. Also have people leave comments if they want to nominate themselves for a piece they are working on, just have them write a short abstract on the topic with their nomination, let the community vote from there on if its a topic they'd want to see highlighted.
5) Depending on the number of authors and their ability with discord, run a server with just them and a small mod team for the week to help coordinate time and stuff. Make sure participating authors understand that we want posts/comments to be accurate but be mindful in their writing and discussion about topics that can cause fighting in the comments (politics mostly). Remind them that they'll foster better discussion if we can keep it from becoming a bar fight.
5) Plan with the authors what day they will post. If possible, see if they can get the post up in the morning with the comments locked. Then that afternoon/evening have them plan for an hour or so to engage with comments and open the comment section up a couple hours before that for people to start submitting questions. I think doing it this way gives people time to read the post first and digest it a bit before responding, it helps focus the time mods need to be heavily monitoring the comments for trolls, and it also lets the author focus on engaging with some of the best discussion questions at the time when they are available.
6) Try to organize authors for a group live discussion towards the end of the week. Whoever is leading that discussion maybe try to figure out some common themes between posts and pose those questions to the group of OPs to discuss rather than questions related to their specific posts. Get questions to the group ahead of time and then have the moderator try to just keep discussion moving between participants.
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