Metus comments on Open thread, September 9-15, 2013 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Metus 09 September 2013 04:50AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 09 September 2013 01:43:00PM *  1 point [-]

I sympathize.... but finding all the good stuff is hard enough now and I certainly don't succeed at it. What happens when there are ten times as many posters?

Reddit tries hard, but I don't spend much time there because the volume is so overwhelming.

Comment author: Metus 09 September 2013 01:46:35PM 0 points [-]

It seems like a winner-take-all problem in the comments to me. As LW sorts submissions by date and not by reddit's algorithm it is no problem to see valuable posts by their upvotes. In the comments however posts are sorted by votes and here winner-takes-all comes into play as most people only read the first couple of posts and late-comers drown out.

Comment author: Watercressed 09 September 2013 02:45:37PM *  2 points [-]

Above the top-level comment box, there's an option to sort comments by date. Perhaps that should be the default.