faul_sname comments on Open Thread, November 16–30, 2012 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: VincentYu 18 November 2012 01:59PM

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Comment author: faul_sname 21 November 2012 12:54:06AM 6 points [-]

Don't you mean:

I want to see all the people here write their comments using this. Call it working on making things easier to understand for people who aren't you.

CHANGE MADE AFTER I WROTE THIS THE FIRST TIME: Wow, it's actually making things worse, sort of. Do any people here want to make a thing that helps you see when you're using big words that uses the top 5000 words? Top 10000? In a way that I find funny, this thing that tells you how hard something is to read says that your writing needs you to read like a high school or college student to understand them easily the first time.

Comment author: [deleted] 21 November 2012 12:56:53AM 2 points [-]

Exactly, it doesn't really work. But I maintain that it at least fails in an interesting way.