tgb comments on Philosophical Landmines - Less Wrong

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Comment author: tgb 09 February 2013 03:50:48PM 0 points [-]

Additional ambiguity of "OP": does it refer to the top-level comment or to the article the comment is on? Does anyone have a good way to make this clear when using the term?

Comment author: EricHerboso 13 February 2013 03:00:33AM 2 points [-]

I've never seen that as an additional ambiguity. I've always understood "OP" to mean "the original article", and never "the top level comment". But maybe this is because I've just never encountered the other use (or didn't notice when someone meant it to refer to the top level comment).