ciphergoth comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 February 2010 05:49:51PM 8 points [-]

I hate to sound complimentary, but... I get the impression that the comments on LW are substantially higher-quality than the comments on OB.

And that the comments on LW come from a smaller group of core readers as well, which is to some extent unfortunate.

I wonder if it's the karma system or the registration requirement that does it?

Comment author: ciphergoth 16 February 2010 07:47:06PM 7 points [-]

Threading helps a lot too.

Comment author: Dre 16 February 2010 08:28:18PM 0 points [-]

OB has threading (although it doesn't seem as good/ as used as on LW).

Comment author: ciphergoth 16 February 2010 08:30:38PM 3 points [-]

That may be a recent innovation; it wasn't threaded in the days when Eliezer's articles appeared there.

Comment author: Cyan 16 February 2010 08:33:47PM *  1 point [-]

I think it happened immediately after LW went live. Robin revised a bunch of things at that time.

Comment author: gwern 18 February 2010 03:23:46AM 0 points [-]

Yup; I asked Robin why he was willing to make all those changes and upgrades during the LW/OB split, when his rationale for splitting was that he didn't trust the LW/Reddit codebase. I don't remember what his answer was.