Vaniver 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: Vaniver 23 April 2011 03:27:08PM *  10 points [-]

They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it's not clear that either of those things are things we want here. I mean, one of the preference options here is to turn names off.

I think there's a potential that this would be a positive change, but there needs to be a lot of groundwork establishing that direction as positive.

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 23 April 2011 04:37:50PM 6 points [-]

I think that the lack of avatars helps me treat a person's argument independently from that person, reducing any tendency toward ad hominen responses. I suspect that this is true for others on the site as well.

Comment author: katydee 23 April 2011 04:52:49PM 1 point [-]

Concur.

Comment author: timtyler 23 April 2011 08:04:44PM 0 points [-]

They help with recognition of people and social aspects, but it's not clear that either of those things are things we want here.

There could be configuration options for those that share your sentiments - but I think thumbnail images should be on by default - especially when viewing user pages.