JGWeissman comments on Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010 - Less Wrong
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It looks like all reply comments are contained (indirectly) by a div with a class name of "child", and top level comments are not. So your script could filter replies by ignoring anything contained in a "child" div.
I investigated this, but it turns out many good quotes are replies. I preferred false positives to false negatives.
I quickly implemented your suggestion, had a look, and decided that I prefer the cleaner version after all. Many-many good quotes are lost this way, but we don't have to think of that while browsing the list. :) I rewrote the article accordingly.