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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on [META] Karma for last 30 days? - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: ArisKatsaris 30 August 2012 10:33AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 August 2012 09:02:00PM 1 point [-]

That would've been hard to find, but thankfully Gabriel did the work to find one example. Thanks Gabriel!

If you go to Configurations and Amplitude and scroll down... then you'll suddenly find this really amazingly huge thread, much much larger than anything around it. What is this wonderful huge thread, you wonder? Why, it's this:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/pd/configurations_and_amplitude/6bwo

Finding this kind of conversation dominating Recent Comments, much less Top Comments, is something I find dishedonic and I don't think it helps the site either.

Comment author: CarlShulman 01 September 2012 09:05:53AM 6 points [-]

I saw that at the time. But as Vladimir_Nesov says, they seem rare enough to not much impair my reading experience. What is your estimate of their frequency per year or per month?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 31 August 2012 09:21:23PM *  6 points [-]

I thought you had something different in mind, but if it is this, I don't understand in what way is the solution of charging only for immediate replies to bad comments unsatisfactory. When I proposed this variant of the feature in the ticket, the thread you cited was exactly of the kind I was thinking about.

On the other hand, threads like this are rare, so (1) you seem to exaggerate their impact and (2) a month that you've suggested in the ticket won't be enough to see whether the direct-reply-fee solution helps, as we only get a few of these in a year.