wmoore comments on Less Wrong Polls in Comments - Less Wrong

79 Post author: jimrandomh 19 September 2012 04:19PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 19 September 2012 05:17:33PM *  3 points [-]

Awesome! But since we're stress-testing it, let's try doing things wrong.

First thing that I noticed is that it doesn't let you post if there's a poll error. That's great! ... except it doesn't respect four spaces to put something in code format, so I can't easily tell you what I tried and what failed. Putting tests in their own comments to make it more obvious when something passes.

[edit]Oops, this also floods recent comments.

Comment author: Vaniver 19 September 2012 05:20:51PM *  4 points [-]

Trying to put two kinds of polls together:

How many bugs will I find?

The code for that was |poll:number|{all of them}{none of them}, with the pipes replaced by square brackets. It looks like the interior poll type takes precedence, which is probably what should happen, but it might be better to complain instead.

Submitting...

Comment author: ewang 22 September 2012 05:33:20AM 0 points [-]

Mean 1.69172935902e+16

What use is the mean if anyone can just do something like this?

Comment author: [deleted] 22 September 2012 08:22:39PM 5 points [-]

Yeah, scrap the mean, and show the 1st and 3rd quartile in addition to the median.

Comment author: ewang 22 September 2012 05:34:42AM 0 points [-]

Point already raised and discussed, see below.