dbaupp comments on Introduction to the Sequence Reruns - Less Wrong
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Late as I am, I think this is a real waste of bandwidth. Not only is almost no one participating, but those that do, directly violate the idea of this website that no article is too old to comment on. And it's useless to everyone who wasn't there at the beginning of the rerun. Has anyone who hasn't read the sequences ever wanted this? I'm pretty convinced it doesn't help anyone at all.
I wouldn't even mind if it didn't say to discuss the sequences on the rerun posts instead of the main posts. This is only going to cause confusion, with discussions broken and threaded and fucking broken. I mean, if I want to see the most recent discussion on an article, I'm going to ctrl+f "2011" on that page. I'm not going to go looking for a tiny chance of comments on one of the SEQ_Rerun tagged posts.
I'm calling for it to end. It's still not even a quarter done, the first (and, I hope, last) rerun, so there's just no reason not to end it. Or at least fix it so it doesn't say to post comments on the rerun posts anymore, like alexflint says.
I like the reruns! I haven't read all the sequences (and I'm sure I'm not the only "regular" (for some value of regular) who hasn't), so it's interesting when a post I haven't seen (or can't remember) pops up.
And even if I have seen it, often posts are worth a re-read. Or, spending a few minutes thinking about it again.
(Sure, I could go through them day-by-day personally, but I don't think I would do it reliably by myself.)
Furthermore, it means that every sequence post gets a summary in the wiki (thanks MinibearRex, and others!).