prase 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: prase 28 April 2011 02:35:44PM 7 points [-]

Anonymisation of user names in the Anti-Kibitzer instead of hiding them. Not seeing any identificator of the author makes it difficult to follow longer exchanges, and I often switch off the AK because of that. So, instead of seeing something like this

  • I think that X.
  • I disagree with your claim.
  • Why do you think so?
  • Actually I have changed my opinion.

which may be confusing if you don't know who has posted especially the last reply, it may look like

  • User_1: I think that X.
  • User_2: I disagree with your claim.
  • User_3: Why do you think so?
  • User_2: Actually I have changed my opinion.

The AK could simply number all participants in a thread starting from 1 each time the page is reloaded.