I completely agree this discussion should be moved outside your post. But the counterintuitive mechanics of LessWrong mean a derailing discussion may actually increase the visibility and upvotes of your original message (by bumping it in the “recent discussion”).
(It’s probably still bad if it’s high up in the comment section.)
It’s too bad you can only delete comment threads, you can’t move them to the bottom or make them collapsed by default.
I completely agree this discussion should be moved outside your post. But the counterintuitive mechanics of LessWrong mean a derailing discussion may actually increase the visibility and upvotes of your original message (by bumping it in the “recent discussion”).
(It’s probably still bad if it’s high up in the comment section.)
It’s too bad you can only delete comment threads, you can’t move them to the bottom or make them collapsed by default.