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When I see a lesswrong post in my RSS reader, it still shows the author of the post. Is there a way I can avoid this? Does anyone else experience the same problem?
The anti-kibitzer script is designed with Web browsing in mind rather than RSS feeds.
The RSS feed doesn't seem to show posts or comments' karma scores anyway, and doesn't allow voting as far as I know, so the anti-kibitz feature may not be relevant for people who consume LessWrong that way.
I could be wrong about this, of course - tell me more if I am?
On a rationallity website that knows about biases like the halo effect, displaying the author of a post before the content is just silly.
The identity of the author influences my interpretation of the post before I've even read it, so it would be better if the author of the post didn't appear right at the top of the RSS item. This could be avoided by, for instance, creating a parallel RSS feed without info about the author. This would be a lot of effort to go to just for me, which is why I asked if other people had the same problem.
The only problem is, part of the meaning of the post is its context, and sometimes the author's identity provides context. Like when multiple people are having a discussion and someone says, "As I wrote above..." or something. They could just link everything, but it'd be best if the anti-kibitzer assigned random names or numbers to each commenter in a given thread - or something like that. That way you'd at least be able to follow a discussion. Or does it already do that?
Yes please. Gensymming authors by thread would fix most of the problems on both side of the kibitz button.
The author should probably be in manual control of which comments visibly share authorship.
You might be able to do something with Yahoo Pipes.
And... Done!
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=0ebe8882acda67e183017fa5f27014c1