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Thing is I don't remember editing the text of that prediction myself. Now this is the sort of minor edit that might be thought to be utterly forgettable, but two days ago my Internet usage was extremely limited, and I'd not spend it editing predictionbook predictions.
It's highly unlikely that I was hacked with the sole purpose of changing "In “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality” it will be revealed that " to "HP MoR: ".
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? I'd prefer this to be fixed, as I don't like actions wrongly assigned to me -- though the fact that this particular instance is harmless enough, makes this a non-priority for me in this particular instance.
Either way I'd like a clarification, if possible, so that I'm sure my memory isn't so glitchy as to forget this.
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.)
Correct. I edited all the predictions to read 'HP MoR: ' for uniformity and searchability (once Google re-indexes them).
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.