NancyLebovitz comments on New Discussion section on LessWrong! - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Emile 28 September 2010 01:08PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 30 September 2010 01:41:43PM 0 points [-]

LW uses Markdown for urls and such-- the details are under the Help link at the lower right of the comment window.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 30 September 2010 01:56:30PM 3 points [-]

LW uses Markdown for urls and such

Uh, the comment you are replying to is definitely spam.

Comment author: arundelo 30 September 2010 03:14:15PM *  2 points [-]

I clicked "Vote down" and it got bolded the way it does when you vote on something, and the comment's score went from 0 to -1, but when I reload the page, "Vote down" is no longer bolded and the score is back to 0. I tried in Chrome and Firefox (on Linux). I went and voted up another comment, and that works fine.

Comment author: nerzhin 30 September 2010 03:27:11PM 1 point [-]

This is happening to me too. Looks like we have a bug...

Comment author: wedrifid 30 September 2010 03:30:10PM 1 point [-]

People have reported it (someplace around here), someone has fixed it. Waiting on a pull request and a production deployment.

Comment author: wedrifid 30 September 2010 02:57:48PM 1 point [-]

And not very well done spam at that. I'm sure I could write a better black hat marketing spam bot than that.

If this sort of thing started happening frequently it would be good if this sort of post could be deleted or at least have the link stripped. (The outgoing link being the important part of the spam.) For example, the code could simply not display outgoing links from users with < 100 karma.

Comment author: Clippy 30 September 2010 02:09:40PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, we don't want to be encouraging spam or other kinds of noise posts on this site. I voted it down.