Wei_Dai comments on Agree, Retort, or Ignore? A Post From the Future - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Wei_Dai 24 November 2009 10:29PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 25 November 2009 06:53:05AM 0 points [-]

Your request seems reasonable, and I think it can accommodated without too much difficulty. For example, each user can set a "vacation" option, which if turned on, will cause every unanswered comment directed at that user to receive a "I'm away from this blog" status response.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 November 2009 07:17:45AM 3 points [-]

I do not like autoresponders.

Something that could be done unintrusively and without manual intervention from users is some indicator that the author has not logged in recently. eg. A change in color somewhere, an asterix, etc.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 25 November 2009 09:55:30AM 1 point [-]

I like this idea, whether or not any other suggestions are put into practice, though I suggest that there be a way to opt out of using it (with a different/complementary signal that you're doing so, rather than showing as always or never active) - there are periods when I only have the time or energy to skim the blog, but not comment, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who finds themselves in that position or simply prefers privacy.

Comment author: wedrifid 25 November 2009 12:15:04PM 1 point [-]

I agree. You shouldn't be expected to manually delete your cookies in order to manipulate activity indicators.

Comment author: Vladimir_Golovin 25 November 2009 08:48:21AM *  2 points [-]

I feel that something like bug tracking / trouble ticket software format could be appropriate for this purpose -- unresolved arguments would be marked as such, people could view unresolved "arguments" assigned to them, and it would be easy to judge the level of commitment of participants by their number of unresolved arguments.

Obviously, participating in such a system would require much higher level of commitment than that of the current blog format.