paper-machine comments on Configurations and Amplitude - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2008 07:41AM

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Comment author: Alicorn 23 June 2012 06:21:45PM 5 points [-]

Please go away.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 June 2012 07:04:22PM 1 point [-]

The entire thread was deleted, but you can still read parts of it in the history.

Previously.

Comment author: Alicorn 23 June 2012 08:50:38PM 0 points [-]

I can see the banned comments, but yeah. I actually read or at least skim literally every comment and post on LW, so I've been sitting back for a while now.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 June 2012 09:01:48PM 0 points [-]

Then someone should probably know about the privilege escalation bug that allows us plebs to read banned comments.

Comment author: Alicorn 23 June 2012 09:11:50PM 0 points [-]

You also see banned comments? I think the person to notify is Matt of Tricycle.

Comment author: komponisto 25 June 2012 01:45:33AM *  2 points [-]

The ability to see banned comments on userpages (but nowhere else) is a feature.

(Someone taking the active step of clicking on a username presumably has a specific interest in seeing the comments, and ought to be able to.)

Comment author: shokwave 25 June 2012 04:26:48AM 1 point [-]

I think Alicorn understood paper-machine to be claiming to see deleted comments in-place. I also think this because going to someone's user page and seeing banned comments does not seem like the kind of activity that would count as a "privilege escalation bug".

Comment author: [deleted] 25 June 2012 09:26:32AM 0 points [-]

Depends on why the comments were banned. If it's because they disclosed information which shouldn't have been disclosed...

Comment author: Monkeymind 23 June 2012 09:10:58PM *  -2 points [-]

So what's up with that? I went to a lot of work writing those posts.

Is this the sort of thing done with approval of the site owner?

They were well thot out and reasoned posts. The majority were very civil and violated no posted rules. In fact there aren't any posted rules that I am aware of. Just because my posts are annoying to some folks is not reason to delete them. NO one has to read anything.

I just don't understand the reasoning there, or here:

"A specific suggestion I have is to establish a community norm of downvoting those participating in hopeless conversations, even if their contributions are high-quality."