PeterS comments on Karma Changes - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 December 2009 12:17AM

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Comment author: PeterS 23 December 2009 04:16:07AM 1 point [-]

Doesn't this post belong in the December 2009 Meta-Thread?

Comment author: Bindbreaker 28 December 2009 07:58:40AM 2 points [-]

Why is this post being downvoted? It seems a valid question to me.

Comment author: wedrifid 28 December 2009 01:21:51PM 1 point [-]

Why is this post being downvoted? It seems a valid question to me.

It is a valid question. I suspect the downvotes were in lieu of the valid answer, which is 'no'.

The Karma system was drastically altered and seeing the karma numbers jump around by up to an order of magnitude (well, technically more...) is somewhat surprising. It would be confusing if the change notice was hidden away in a mostly ignored thread.

Comment author: PeterS 28 December 2009 07:19:09PM *  1 point [-]

And yet, of all those who downvoted, not one took the time to actually provide that valid answer.

The post currently sits at -2 according to my latest refresh. It seems other readers agree - we don't want to see a meta submission like this at the top-level.

It would be confusing if the change notice was hidden away in a mostly ignored thread.

Agreed. LW needs a blog or something to list recent updates and give heads-ups about these kinds of things. Reddit does that, and it works well. This post neither belongs in the new/promoted feed, nor in the meta-thread (despite what I appeared to suggest in my original comment) - the former is inelegant and the latter impractical.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 December 2009 08:21:14AM 1 point [-]

And yet, of all those who downvoted, not one took the time to actually provide that valid answer.

It would seem that they took the question as a rhetorical normative claim, for which downvotes are an appropriate response.

LW needs a blog or something to list recent updates and give heads-ups about these kinds of things. Reddit does that, and it works well. This post neither belongs in the new/promoted feed, nor in the meta-thread (despite what I appeared to suggest in my original comment) - the former is inelegant and the latter impractical.

That would be a nice feature to have if it was suitably unobtrusive. But given how frequent such updates would be I don't mind them appearing as posts.