Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Issues, Bugs, and Requested Features - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 February 2009 04:45PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 March 2009 05:44:55AM 2 points [-]

Links on user pages and on "Recent Comments" lead to individual comments, without any context in which the comment is made. At least the whole thread should be shown, starting from the top-level comment, otherwise comments that reply to other comments fail to make any sense. For example click here.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 March 2009 05:54:08AM 2 points [-]

I don't know about showing the whole thread, but showing just the immediate parent would be an improvement.

Or rather, clicking a comment should just jump to that comment in the thread. But if we have a page of recent comments a la Hacker News, then showing the immediate parent of each parented comment would make that recent comments page pretty effective as an overview of current discussion on LW, I think.