Eugine_Nier comments on Hi - I'm new here - some questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 14 November 2010 10:04:02AM 3 points [-]

One of the suggestions I've seen here that I see more wisdom in now than when I first heard it was "try to not have three or more of the most recent comments."

I get the feeling that rule was created as a way to explain/rationalize to people who post many cranky comments what they're doing wrong without getting into big arguments attempting to explain to them what's wrong with their posts.

In any case I've certainly had three or more posts in the recent comments (I tend to post in batches) without anyone complaining, or probably even noticing.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 November 2010 11:42:36PM 1 point [-]

I get the feeling that rule was created as a way to explain/rationalize to people who post many cranky comments what they're doing wrong without getting into big arguments attempting to explain to them what's wrong with their posts.

Anything wrong with that?

Sure LW is about becoming less wrong but I have a feeling that the tempo and mode of correction is somewhat incompatible with what would be needed to correct the above.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 November 2010 10:22:22AM 1 point [-]

In any case I've certainly had three or more posts in the recent comments (I tend to post in batches) without anyone complaining, or probably even noticing.

Me too.

Comment author: Larks 15 November 2010 09:12:59PM 0 points [-]

In any case I've certainly had three or more posts in the recent comments (I tend to post in batches) without anyone complaining, or probably even noticing.

The issue is surely the proportion of posts (especially on a given thread) one person is producing, and in the old days the denominator was much lower.