komponisto comments on The Best Comments Ever - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Grognor 18 March 2012 01:02PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (20)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: komponisto 18 March 2012 08:21:13PM 2 points [-]

On the contrary, it seems to me that information cascades would be better avoided by separating out voting on the comments "where they occur" from voting on them as "nominees" in this thread.

I had assumed the purpose of this thread was to identify these comments so that they could be collected elsewhere (perhaps offsite) in a "List of Best LW Comments", ordered by how they score in this thread.

Comment author: steven0461 18 March 2012 08:35:11PM 3 points [-]

I prefer Grognor's way. Voting on comments in this thread should be based on the value added by comments in this thread. Basing voting on the value added by the original comments would just create an incentive for people to mass-repost the top comments feed.