Anubhav comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality predictions - Less Wrong

6 Post author: gwern 09 April 2012 09:49PM

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Comment author: Anubhav 10 April 2012 11:00:01AM 8 points [-]

So is this some sort of glitch in predictionbook which falsely records me editing the prediction, when in reality it was edited by some moderator?

Yes, that was gwern. The site doesn't keep track of who changed the prediction, so it just assumes the author of the prediction ( = you) did it.

(The sheer amount of "they just didn't care" inherent in the site design boggles the mind.)

Comment author: gwern 10 April 2012 02:12:36PM 1 point [-]

Correct. I edited all the predictions to read 'HP MoR: ' for uniformity and searchability (once Google re-indexes them).

Comment author: roryokane 12 April 2012 12:34:30AM *  0 points [-]

Though rarely updated, PredictionBook is open source. So at least you don't have to wait for the creators to fix it, if you know how to code. I wrote up an Issue for this bug, describing some starting points for fixing it.