JGWeissman comments on Best of Rationality Quotes 2009/2010 - Less Wrong

24 Post author: DanielVarga 18 December 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 18 December 2010 10:20:24PM 5 points [-]

Unfortunately some of the collected comments are not actual quotes, but highly voted replies to quotes, the script can't tell the difference.

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.

Comment author: DanielVarga 18 December 2010 11:22:15PM *  2 points [-]

I investigated this, but it turns out many good quotes are replies. I preferred false positives to false negatives.

Comment author: DanielVarga 19 December 2010 10:11:44PM *  1 point [-]

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.