FAWS comments on Spring 2010 Meta Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FAWS 11 March 2010 10:34:40AM *  3 points [-]

I suggest that a new open thread be opened whenever the current one reaches 500 comments, since that's the highest number that can be displayed at once, unless a new one would be opened shortly anyway. (Shortly meaning in less than somewhere between a week and three days, depending on how fast these open threads are filling. )

Poll: Vote by voting one option up and the karma balance down.

EDIT: Changing the poll options in light of khafra's comment, "in favor" -> "New thread after 500 comments" (4 votes at the time of the edit); "against" -> "no new threads" (0 votes) and adding options for other thresholds.

Comment author: FAWS 11 March 2010 02:27:39PM 9 points [-]

New thread after 300 comments.

karma balance

Comment author: FAWS 11 March 2010 02:27:58PM 5 points [-]

New thread after 200 comments.

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Comment author: Academian 16 March 2010 04:41:45PM 1 point [-]

New thread after 200 comments with an explicit "Please do not make useless comments here; let's stay focussed on improving LessWrong.com" in the post proper.

Comment author: dclayh 11 March 2010 06:29:31PM 2 points [-]

Hm, I was going to propose that the threads continue on the 1st and 15th of each month (the 14th of February, of course), and be titled "Open Thread: Ides of March edition", "Open Thread: Calends of April edition", etc.. Because the classical Roman calendar is awesome.

Comment author: Kevin 11 March 2010 10:37:20PM 1 point [-]

That doesn't allow for continued scalability in the face of the growth of this site, which is not going to slow down unless the admins try to intentionally slow down the growth.

Or maybe there are cool names for the 1/4 and 3/4 points of each month; dunno.

Comment author: FAWS 11 March 2010 10:35:02AM *  0 points [-]

New thread after 500 comments.

karma balance

Comment author: Jack 12 May 2010 07:26:25AM *  1 point [-]

The May open thread is at 400+ now. Are we are still in favor of this? New open threads weren't much good last month since they weren't promoted. I suspect that will have to change for the new threads to be worthwhile.

Comment author: khafra 11 March 2010 02:06:36PM 0 points [-]

I would amend this suggestion to opening a new thread when the current one reaches a number significantly lower than 500. On the last open thread, 19 of 20 comments in the first 500 were replies to other comments.

Comment author: Kevin 11 March 2010 10:41:28AM 0 points [-]

That's a good convention.

First person that interprets the poll results to be in favor of a new open thread should get some free karma.

Comment author: FAWS 11 March 2010 02:28:50PM -1 points [-]

New thread after a number of comments significantly greater than 500.

karma balance

Comment author: FAWS 11 March 2010 02:27:08PM -1 points [-]

New thread after 400 comments.

karma balance

Comment author: FAWS 11 March 2010 10:35:10AM *  -2 points [-]

No new threads.

karma balance

Comment author: FAWS 19 March 2010 06:24:52PM 2 points [-]

Apparently at least two people "cheated" in the poll?

Comment author: RobinZ 19 March 2010 06:37:02PM 1 point [-]

Time for that polling feature to be implemented, I suspect.