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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 03 April 2014 07:19:28AM 2 points [-]

A question about site mechanics: I can no longer find EYs "My April Fools' Day Confession" post in Main. It is just not listed there neither by rating nor by time. I can navigate toward it from comments or bookmarks.

Checking this a bit I find that this is only filtered if I'm logged in. And I remember that something like this happened some weeks ago with another post which was moved between Main and Discussion.

Is this a bug or is this some kind of filtering feature I don't get?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 03 April 2014 04:01:27PM 2 points [-]

In preferences there are options to hide posts that you have liked or disliked.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 03 April 2014 04:42:36PM 0 points [-]

Yes. That's it. I never changed the filtering settings and didn't know the effect. And I don't downvote often enough to notice that earlier.

How did you figure it out?

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 03 April 2014 06:21:14PM 1 point [-]

Actually, the default is not to hide anything. I figured it out by knowing the preferences page, and thus knowing about functionality that is built into the site.

Comment author: Emile 03 April 2014 12:19:33PM 1 point [-]

Has it ever been on LessWrong? I only ever saw it on Facebook...

Comment author: CellBioGuy 04 April 2014 04:41:55AM 2 points [-]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/jzr/my_april_fools_day_confession/

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 03 April 2014 03:48:01PM 1 point [-]

Yes, it was definitely on LW.

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 April 2014 11:05:32AM 1 point [-]

Given what EY wrote,maybe he doesn't want that to many people read what he wrote outside of the April Fool context for fear of people taking the writing seriously.

I'm writing this on April 1st because it's the day when nobody in this world will take it seriously, no matter how much about me it explains.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 03 April 2014 11:15:21AM 2 points [-]

Maybe. But shouldn't it be the other way around: Only LWers get to see the post, but not the general public? I mean I can only see the post if I'm not logged in.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 03 April 2014 12:55:36PM 0 points [-]

Just to make it clear I mean this LW post: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jzr/my_april_fools_day_confession/

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 April 2014 11:24:27AM 0 points [-]

For me it appears in neither in the discussion or main list whether I"m logged in or locked out.

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