roryokane comments on We Should Introduce Ourselves Differently - Less Wrong

54 Post author: NancyLebovitz 18 May 2015 08:48PM

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Comment author: roryokane 25 May 2015 06:57:58PM *  3 points [-]

The old introduction may be obscure, but at least it is informative. A visitor can follow the links …

I can’t tell from Nancy’s anecdote, but it is possible that her friend couldn’t follow the links on the home page, because she was actually on the Google search page:

Welcome to Less Wrong
lesswrong.com/ ▾
Less Wrong is an online community for people who want to apply the discovery of biases like the conjunction fallacy, the affect heuristic, and scope insensitivity ...

The sentence’s wording without links is important because Google quotes it in plaintext.

Comment author: Pancho_Iba 22 June 2015 04:32:33PM 0 points [-]

Well, the sentence's wording without links is important, but maybe if your friend suggests a site, you can try not being so lazy as not clicking the link to the page.