NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 June 2010 03:02:12PM 0 points [-]

Thanks. I've got it set at 500 comments, but I don't think it actually shows 500-- and in any case, I think it's just for comment threads, not for recent comments.

It's akrasia, but yeah, I've been using Recent Comments to read or at least skim everything.

I don't even have clear ideas of the right questions to ask about how people use LW, but a survey would be interesting.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 18 June 2010 04:17:09PM 0 points [-]

I've got it set at 500 comments, but I don't think it actually shows 500-- and in any case, I think it's just for comment threads, not for recent comments.

I never noticed that before, but you are right: all the /comments/ pages I have asked for have 100 comments on them regardless of how I try to change that. (I tried setting the number in prefs to a smaller value, logging out and in again, following a "Next" link.)

(Oddly, although it will show me a page with 100 comments on it if I click it, the URL in the "Next" link bottom of a /comments/ page contains the string "count=50".)