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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Open Thread for January 17 - 23 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 22 January 2014 03:27:21PM 1 point [-]

Can somebody explain the colors of the vote icon of a post? I see

  • empty, no number, only a dot - occurs even for posts that have been voted

  • a number in white

  • a number in green

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 22 January 2014 05:27:00PM 1 point [-]

empty, no number, only a dot - occurs even for posts that have been voted

Posted recently.

a number in white

Not posted recently, and in Discussion.

a number in green

Not posted recently, and in Main.

Comment author: Nornagest 22 January 2014 06:28:55PM 0 points [-]

I've occasionally seen green numbers in Discussion, but I think it happens when a thread has recently been moved to Main and parts of the database are still out of sync with each other.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 22 January 2014 09:44:27PM 1 point [-]

Actually, green circles are for promoted posts, not all main posts.

So why do they show up in discussion? I wouldn't expect many promoted posts to lose their promotion, let alone be sent to discussion. The only examples I have of green circles in discussion are meetup announcements, which are plausibly demoted as obsolete.

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