PeterS comments on Karma Changes - Less Wrong

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

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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.