You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

thomblake comments on Analyzing FF.net reviews of 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality' - Less Wrong Discussion

25 Post author: gwern 03 November 2012 11:47PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Article Navigation

Comments (21)
Tags: practical statistics hpmor harry_potter fanfiction predictions

Comments (21)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: thomblake 05 November 2012 04:47:41PM 0 points [-]

The odd thing there for me is that favorites outnumber follows. I would have expected follows to be a superset of favorites: I might find a story worth following, but not so good I will publicly put it on my favorites list & endorse it.

FFDN, especially historically, has a terrible interface, and I'm amazed more than tens of people managed to follow or favorite the story.

I tried to explain once the procedure for following a story on FFDN to an interested friend, and my friend responded with an incredulous "You're making this up" and did not end up taking any action.

Comment author: gwern 05 November 2012 05:51:24PM 0 points [-]

FFDN, especially historically, has a terrible interface, and I'm amazed more than tens of people managed to follow or favorite the story.

But unless the interface makes following much easier than favoriting, doesn't explain the disparity.

I tried to explain once the procedure for following a story on FFDN to an interested friend, and my friend responded with an incredulous "You're making this up" and did not end up taking any action.

Isn't it like... checking a radio box at the bottom of the page?

I see:

Favorite: (Story) (Author) | Follow: (Story) (Author) [Save]

Comment author: thomblake 05 November 2012 08:52:54PM *  0 points [-]

Isn't it like... checking a radio box at the bottom of the page?

Yes, that's a very recent development. And those actually work most of the time, if the login system behaves.

Powered by Reddit Powered by Reddit