Lawliet comments on Rationalist Fiction - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 March 2009 08:22AM

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Comment author: Lawliet 19 March 2009 10:02:58PM 1 point [-]

As far as I know, there is no private-message function built in to lesswrong. I prefer to maintain some level of anonymity anyway, and it would hardly be worth creating an account specifically for this purpose. I don't care that much, though a general idea of which character does it or when would be appreciated.

All that aside, reading it made the whole thing move a lot faster, which probably contributed to the enjoyment, but I otherwise I think they are fairly similar.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 20 March 2009 12:09:49AM *  5 points [-]

There actually is a private messaging thing built into LW, but it's not obvious, and there's no direct link to see incoming messages.

go to http://lesswrong.com/message/inbox to see your inbox (which includes replies to your comments).

Also, if you click on someone else's name, that is, so you can see a different person's profile, then there will be a direct link available to message them. But, again, unless they're actively checking, I don't think they'll have any obvious way to know that a message was sent to them.

EDIT: when I said there's no direct link, I meant "there's no obvious simple path from just clicking stuff on the front page of LW to get to your inbox"