Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Open Thread: November 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 02 November 2009 09:46:43PM *  13 points [-]

At it's height this poll registered 66 upvotes. As it is meta, no longer useful and not interesting enough for the top comments page please down vote it. Upvote the attached karma dump to compensate.

(It looks like CannibalSmith hasn't been on lately so I'll post this) This post tests how much exposure comments to open threads posted "not late" get. If you are reading this then please either comment or upvote. Please don't do both and don't downvote. The exposure count to this comment will then be compared to that of previous comment made "late". I won't link to the other comment and please don't go finding it yourself.

If the difference is insignificant, a LW forum is not warranted, and open threads are entirely sufficient (unless there are reasons other than exposure for having a forum).

I will post another comment in reply to this one which you can downvote if you don't want to give me karma for the post.

Comment author: CannibalSmith 03 November 2009 06:03:35PM 2 points [-]

Thanks. :)

Comment author: Jack 09 November 2009 12:44:42AM 2 points [-]

So by my count it is 37 to 71 and that probably overestimates the response a late comment would get given that there was something of a feedback loop.