Rixie comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) - Less Wrong

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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".