RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread, February 1-14, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 February 2013 01:22:01PM 5 points [-]

Anatoly is right. Accusation without proof is trolling, even if the proof exists. Thank you for providing at least a small part. But why so coy about the others?

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Comment author: [deleted] 02 February 2013 06:03:31PM 1 point [-]

Regarding this:

I'm using wget and grep to find examples in a less biased manner. There's a lot of deleted comments. A common pattern is that someone from MIRI makes particularly arrogant/self praiseful claim (e.g. Luke claims extreme self scepticism skills), then some responses get deleted. Dmytry (talk) 12:37, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

You do realize you can't tell the difference between someone deleting their own comment and a moderator deleting their comment?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 02 February 2013 08:18:26PM 9 points [-]

I don't know what Dmytry is doing, but it is possible to tell the difference. If I delete my comment, it is not visible on my user page. Whereas, if the moderators delete a comment, it vanishes in context (and its permalink shows "deleted comment"), but the contents are visible on the user page.

A few more details. If I delete my comment, its permalink is an error. I cannot seem to delete a comment without deleting its replies, while moderators can (and users could in the past). If I delete the reply and then the comment, the permalink shows a deleted comment (as if deleted by moderators), but it is not listed on my user page.

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