philh comments on Open thread, Feb. 23 - Mar. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: MrMind 23 February 2015 08:01AM

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Comment author: philh 24 February 2015 11:23:46PM 1 point [-]

I agree, these aren't good reasons not to try.

When you say more trouble than it's worth, do you mean for you or for people on the map? I wasn't saying "you should do this", I was going for "it might be neat if someone wrote software to do this". I agree that doing it manually would be a pain in the ass, and would be somewhat spammy because people didn't opt in for that when they added themselves.

Comment author: acchan 25 February 2015 09:20:35PM 1 point [-]

I mean in general. Clicking a confirmation link might not seem much, but when you multiply by every person every month it is. I suspect it would be more work than just fixing problems as they are found, but I might be underestimating the amount of problems that will be found I guess.

Most importantly, I don't want to risk people not participating because they don't want to be spammed. An alternative solution to consider is redoing the map every year, but I still feel it's unnecessary.