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Joseph_P comments on Open Thread May 9 - May 15 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Elo 09 May 2016 01:55AM

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Comment author: Joseph_P 09 May 2016 03:53:52AM 1 point [-]

There's a typo in the title ("Open Threat").

Comment author: Elo 09 May 2016 05:46:30AM 0 points [-]

wow. I can't believe how I keep being wrong at this. This has to be at least the 10th one I have submitted...

Comment author: Error 09 May 2016 02:48:29PM 6 points [-]

I dunno, I liked it better as Open Threat. ;-)

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 10 May 2016 08:19:29AM 0 points [-]

Would have liked it even better as Open Treat.

Comment author: Arshuni 09 May 2016 06:11:52AM *  1 point [-]

Are you in distress?

Comment author: Elo 09 May 2016 10:05:51AM 1 point [-]

heh. No, but thank you for your concern.

Comment author: Clarity 13 May 2016 02:50:12AM 0 points [-]

I like the way you think and feel.

Comment author: MrMind 09 May 2016 06:58:14AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, it sort of irks me: it should be always "Open thread, mmm dd - mmm dd, yyyy", and yet every time is something different X-D

Comment author: root 09 May 2016 06:08:43PM 0 points [-]

I thought Elo submits the open threads via a scripted cron job - am I wrong? (and if I am, would that not be a good suggestion?)

Comment author: Elo 18 June 2016 12:17:30PM -1 points [-]

what? No. I do them manually. As did MrMind before I realised I was in an earlier timezone for posting them...

Comment author: root 18 June 2016 08:11:09PM 0 points [-]

Then yet another feature for LW 2.0: open threads published with cron. (I'm assuming that you're not familiar with wget/curl so there wasn't even a manual script written)[1]

[1] You can also use Python or some other language in a similar tier.

Comment author: Elo 18 June 2016 09:35:46PM -1 points [-]

it's certainly possible to auto publish them but by removing the manual process you distance the community from self supporting - I definitely hung around more from the day I started creating open threads... I also messaged MrMind and various others since that day.