Open thread, August 12-18, 2013

David_Gerard

If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.

After more work than I would honestly prefer to put into such an effort, I eventually found this post:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/goe/open_thread_february_1528_2013/8iuo

As a curiosity, this post cannot be found from my user-page, nor can it be found via Wei Dai's app. Fascinating.

This is the supposed Modus Operandi of the admins (or maybe only EY) - making such comments hard to find without deleting them. It has been mentioned here and there and I am fairly sure I experienced a version of this recently when the latest comment in the Open Thread feature on the sidebar stopped showing the latest comment for the duration of this (it could've been a coincidence and it is a decent way to lessen the Streisand effect so I don't blame EY for it)

0Richard_Kennaway13y

It can be found from your user page. Click the Comments tab, go to the bottom and click Next, and (currently) it will be on that page. As far as I can tell, the Comments tab shows you all of your comments, but the Overview tab omits anything with an ancestor downvoted to -4 or below (and maybe also anything with a banned ancestor).

1Luke_A_Somers13y

What is EY thinking hiding this? Unless... he thinks it's right or might be, but only if we... no, even then, it's best dealt with as quietly as it would be if it were never touched. No one would be thinking about this if it were left open.