PeerInfinity comments on The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop worrying and create one billion dollars out of nothing - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Kevin 10 February 2010 03:15AM

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Comment author: PeerInfinity 12 February 2010 03:45:19PM 1 point [-]

Automatically truncating URLs might be a bad idea. It could be kinda embarrassing if the URL ended up getting automatically truncated to "The Craigslist Revolution: a real-world application of torture"

Comment author: thomblake 12 February 2010 04:20:56PM 0 points [-]

meh. There are arguable benefits to this approach as opposed to using the full title or a short numeric code, but it's neither settled nor terribly important.