army1987 comments on Open Thread, October 27 - 31, 2013 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: mare-of-night 28 October 2013 12:59AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 October 2013 07:17:02PM 2 points [-]

LW is mostly pure-text with no images except for occasional graphs. Why is that so?

Why shouldn't it be?

Comment author: Lumifer 28 October 2013 07:57:58PM 0 points [-]

I am not implying that it should, but to answer your question, because limits on accepted forms of expression are not necessarily a good thing. Not necessarily a bad thing, either.

People already mentioned some pros (e.g. graphs and such help cross the inferential distance) and cons (e.g. images break the mental flow of some people).

Comment author: [deleted] 02 November 2013 08:14:04PM 0 points [-]

It doesn't feel like a limit to me, just something that very seldom occurs to me to do because I very seldom have any use for it.

(I sometimes link to images -- maybe next time I'll consider including them directly in the comment.)