gwern comments on Open thread, Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CurtisSerVaas 19 January 2016 11:04:17PM 2 points [-]

There was a link (I think it was from Wedrifed) that allowed you to sort a particular user's posts/comments by karma (rather than by time). Does anybody know where that link is?

Comment author: gwern 20 January 2016 12:12:06AM 6 points [-]

You mean Wei Dai's tool? eg http://www.ibiblio.org/weidai/lesswrong_user.php?u=gwern ? Works best with accounts with few comments...

Comment author: CurtisSerVaas 20 January 2016 01:51:46AM *  0 points [-]

Yep! Thanks!

Edit: I see what you mean about it being slow with accounts with lots of comments.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 22 January 2016 06:10:45PM 1 point [-]

And now lots of people are thinking about who might be searched for insight. If it's Yvain then there are curated lists of that...

Comment author: CurtisSerVaas 23 January 2016 04:30:40AM 1 point [-]

I'm basically going back over the sequences and top posts of LW again. I'm already aware of curated lists for Yvain and Kaj, but I don't think there are curated lists for the other top all-time posters. Unfortunately, A. That tool doesn't really work well enough. B. The list of all time top-posters has disappeared, and I'm sure I'd forget some of them if I tried to go off the top of my head.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 23 January 2016 09:15:06AM 0 points [-]

There used to be a ZIP download with all the posts. I just can't find that link though. An alternative is to mirror the site with wget and grep that.