Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Ritual Report: Schelling Day - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 April 2013 11:07:54PM 2 points [-]

If we were bid $5K for the top dozen improvements by a credible source, we'd take it, but no such bid has ever occurred. I think you underestimate the cost.

Comment author: Nova_Division 22 April 2013 01:17:16AM 6 points [-]

Could I get a quick list of those top dozen improvements, so I can estimate the hourly rate for a $5k pay, and then forward that on to my extremely talented programmer fiance (who is also a LWer)?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2013 02:16:19AM 15 points [-]

Off the top of my head:

  • Stop showing user page edits in the LW wiki sidebar.
  • Also in the sidebar: Don't show reverted edits to pages. Show the last real pages with non-reverted edits.
  • When a moderator deletes a comment, if it has no subcomments or if all comments have been deleted, don't show any leftover traces. If there are subcomments, require a deliberate user click to expand them and only allow logged-in users with >=1 karma to do so. Apply the -5 karma troll toll to comments with a deleted ancestor.
  • Show parent comments in user comment feeds (the list of a user's most recent comments). If the user has less than 80% upvotes, enable downvoting in the comment feed for users with over 1000 karma.
  • Cause new comments on a post to stand out more than they do currently (the small green aura does not enable super-easy scanning).
  • Implement Reddit's "highlight comments since..." feature.
  • Show the most recent Rational Quote comment in the main sidebar, the most recent Open Thread and Rationality Diary comment in the Discussion sidebar (i.e., the latest comment from the latest post with the appropriate tag).
  • Automatically strip crap (the sort of stuff e.g. Word generates, but all text editors seem to do it now) from the post editor.

More ambitious projects:

  • Easier tracking of ongoing discussions - "subscribe" to a post and see new comments on it forever, possibly in a separate inbox.
  • Subreddits besides Discussion.
Comment author: Desrtopa 22 April 2013 02:40:48AM 3 points [-]

Cause new comments on a post to stand out more than they do currently (the small green aura does not enable super-easy scanning).

You know, I've been here for years now, and I never noticed the green aura around new posts at all before.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2013 11:06:32PM 2 points [-]

EDIT: Also in the Ambitious column: Give the moderators the ability to move a whole comment thread between posts, preferably to another subreddit (so we can create /r/meta and dump a bunch of this old stuff there), preferably with a replacement comment that automatically links to the new location and has space for a moderator comment explaining the reason for moving. This would be better than deletion in a lot of cases.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 April 2013 11:24:59AM 2 points [-]

Easier tracking of ongoing discussions - "subscribe" to a post and see new comments on it forever, possibly in a separate inbox.

Isn't that what the RSS feed for each comment is for? (I've never used RSS myself, so I dunno.)

Comment author: lukeprog 22 April 2013 01:46:06AM *  4 points [-]

Here are some of the LW issues sitting in the queue because the previous odesk programmer collaborating with Trike Apps on LW development went MIA a couple weeks ago: 373, 370, 367, 358, 323, 203.

BTW, that's one of the reasons development is so expensive. You can invest in training people, but they might disappear.

Comment author: gwern 22 April 2013 01:42:00AM 0 points [-]

Look at the bugtracker and sort by priority? https://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/list?can=2&q=priority=High&colspec=ID%20Estimate%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Contributions

Comment author: Vaniver 22 April 2013 01:48:28AM *  0 points [-]

Even sorting by enhancements, I don't see a lot of things that people have been asking for.

Comment author: gwern 22 April 2013 01:58:01AM 1 point [-]

It's a quick list. If it doesn't include what some people want, perhaps they should be filing requests instead of leaving their wishes languishing in threads no one will read again.

Comment author: Vaniver 22 April 2013 02:02:40AM 0 points [-]

Agreed that improvements to LW will be more likely if people are incentivized to resolve issues in the tracker and post them in the tracker (and that the second could be accomplished just by advertising and visibility of site improvements).

Comment author: Vaniver 21 April 2013 11:10:48PM 1 point [-]

Have you asked, or put together a list of those improvements? My current expectation is that unsolicited bids for unscoped projects are infrequent, but I don't have professional experience in that area.

Comment author: lukeprog 22 April 2013 01:46:32AM 0 points [-]

See here.

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