DanielVarga 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.