beoShaffer comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: beoShaffer 13 July 2013 11:51:54PM 0 points [-]

Meta question. Is it better to correct typos and minor, verifiable factual errors (e.g. a date being a year off) in a post in the post's comment thread or a PM to the author?

Comment author: gwern 14 July 2013 12:08:24AM 2 points [-]

I prefer PMs and do them often for both comments & posts. A minor correction is of no enduring interest and it's better if it didn't take up space publicly. (Can you imagine if every Wikipedia article could only be read as a sequence of diffs? That's what doing minor corrections in public is like.)