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Morendil comments on Open Thread, October 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Morendil 01 October 2012 08:10:15AM *  25 points [-]

In the right-hand navigation bar of the site, there is a "Tags" box which lists the most popular post tags. This box has a feature whereby the tags are rendered in a font size proportional to their frequency of occurrence.

Over time, the attribution of the "sequence_reruns" tag to sequence rerun posts has made this feature inoperative: because it's the single most used tag, and no other tag even comes close in frequency, every tag is now rendered at precisely the same font size except for "sequence_reruns".

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 01 October 2012 10:22:28AM 4 points [-]

You deserve at least 24 upvotes for pointing this out.

Comment author: Morendil 01 October 2012 01:01:59PM *  0 points [-]

I had no idea it had already been reported, but I see it's been corrected now (ETA: nope! I was confusing Main and Discussion). Updating in favor of being a squeaky wheel.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 01 October 2012 01:41:26PM 8 points [-]

I had no idea it had already been reported, but I see it's been corrected now.

No, it hasn't. There are two different tag clouds, one for Main and one for Discussion. It's the Discussion one that faces the problem.

Comment author: Morendil 01 October 2012 06:12:06PM 2 points [-]

Oops.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 01 October 2012 08:14:09PM 8 points [-]

You should edit your original comment to indicate this, so that other people don't think it has been corrected.

Comment author: Slackson 01 October 2012 11:51:28AM 2 points [-]

Strictly speaking it's not precisely the same font size. A few, such as "rationality" and "meta" appear to be one size bigger.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 October 2012 02:18:08PM 1 point [-]

Some tags such as “meetup”, “psychology” or “rationality” do appear to have a slightly larger font size, in my browser at least.