AdeleneDawner comments on Proposed New Features for Less Wrong - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 27 April 2010 02:02:11PM *  3 points [-]
  • if you use a word, say "Newcomb's", a bunch of times, then you'll have a bunch of links to the same thing.

It should be fairly trivial to set the bot up to only link the first instance of each phrase.

  • many of the things we'd like to link to have other meanings, and so will be incorrectly linked; for example, 'update', or even "something to protect".

  • While the heavy cross-linking in Eliezer's posts is good to some extent, you don't want relevant cross-links to be drowned out by automatic ones.

These concerns seem like they would be a minor- or non-issue if the system had appropriate features: Writers should have a way of stopping the bot from linking a given instance of a phrase, in particular. This implies that they'd have to know which phrases were being autolinked, which seems like it'd be sensibly solved by having the autolinks show up when the article is previewed before being published.

Comment author: RobinZ 27 April 2010 04:24:49PM *  0 points [-]

Please don't make automatic links opt-out - that's just going to make it much, much worse for anyone with a slow connection.

Edit: I don't think it's a good idea in the first place, anyway - even ignoring that no possible autolinker would add the correct link in this comment, the server load would be severely increased by the change. Wasn't someone saying that the system was suffering some strain?

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