army1987 comments on What is the Main/Discussion distinction, and what should it be? - Less Wrong

19 Post author: ChrisHallquist 30 December 2013 05:09AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 December 2013 05:06:42PM 4 points [-]

I think a relevant criterion should be how likely people will still be to want to read and comment the post in five years. (ISTM it's more likely for a new comment to an old thread to be missed by everybody in Discussion than in Main, as the former's Recent Comments page is more diluted.)