childofbaud comments on Official Less Wrong Redesign: Call for Suggestions - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Louie 20 April 2011 05:56PM

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Comment author: childofbaud 21 April 2011 04:59:02PM 3 points [-]

A kind of "favourite users" already exists, under the guise of "friends". (Click on PREFERENCES, then click FRIENDS on the re-rendered navigation bar.)

But it sounds like what you're suggesting is a more fine-grained personal ranking of posters. This could be useful, and it could be dangerous. It sounds like it could reinforce confirmation bias, for one.