jooyous comments on Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jooyous 01 February 2013 07:19:30PM 4 points [-]

Ooh, here's another community practice that would be nice to adopt: after you have a long comment thread with someone where you clarify some stuff, if they said "oh okay, now I undstand!" instead of just disappearing when they understand, it would feel much better. That's happened to me a few times here. =\

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 01 February 2013 07:26:06PM 1 point [-]

If they disappear, how do you know it's because they understand and not because they don't understand and don't care anymore?

Comment author: jooyous 01 February 2013 07:37:00PM 2 points [-]

That's exactly the problem! There's currently no way to tell, although it would be useful to know. It would be nice if disappearing consistently indicated not caring anymore so you could gauge how effective you are at clarifying things.

Comment author: CCC 02 February 2013 07:03:23PM 1 point [-]

I quite see your point, and I agree. That would be useful data. While some may simply upvote the post that made them understand instead of replying, I don't think that that would be sufficient; neither the identity of the upvoter nor the reason for the upvote would be readily apparent.