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Comment author: Rixie 14 November 2012 02:01:15AM *  5 points [-]

Hi, I'm Rixie, and I read this fan fic called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by lesswrong, so I decided to check out Lesswrong.com. It is totally different from what I thought it would be, but it's interesting and I like it. And right now I'm reading the post below mine, and wow, my comment sounds all shallow now . . .

Comment author: Strange7 14 November 2012 03:27:08AM 1 point [-]

What did you think it would be like?

Comment author: Rixie 29 November 2012 01:30:40AM -1 points [-]

I thought it would be more like hpmor.com, but for the authour.

Little did I know . . .

Comment author: [deleted] 14 November 2012 02:38:55AM 0 points [-]

Hi Rixie! Don't worry! Lots of people came to LessWrong after reading HPMoR (myself included). I know it can be intimidating here at first, but well worth the effort, I think.

You might also be interested in Three Worlds Collide. It's another fiction by the same guy who wrote HPMoR, and a bunch of the Sequence posts here.

If you have any questions about anything, feel free to PM me!

Comment author: Rixie 14 November 2012 02:11:14AM 0 points [-]

And, question: What does 0 children mean? It's on the comments which were down-voted a lot and not shown.

Comment author: Slackson 14 November 2012 03:29:49AM 0 points [-]

It means it has 0 replies. The way the comments work is that the one above is the "parent" and the one's below are "children". Sometimes you see people using terminology such as "grand-parent" and "great grand-parent" to refer to posts further above.

Comment author: Nornagest 14 November 2012 02:30:07AM 0 points [-]

Means no one replied to the comment. Normally this is implicit in the number of comments nested under it, but since those aren't shown when comments are downvoted below the threshold, the site provides the number of child comments as a convenience.

Comment author: Nisan 14 November 2012 02:29:04AM 0 points [-]

If the downvoted comment had, e.g. 5 total replies to it, it would say "5 children".