Well, sort of. Your comment provides evidence for habryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 0 commenters finding their way here from that thread, but it provides evidence against hybryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 2 or more commenters finding their way here from that thread.
Overall rate of engagement remains low. It was stuck at 11 comments for 21 days before your comment, and has been stuck at 47 karma for at least the last 19 days. Karma and comments are imperfect proxies of readership, but they are what we have. In the counterfactual world where this post wasn’t unlisted, I expect engagement would have been far higher.
yeah, I don’t try to overstate the evidence. but it was the rare case where me being here provided evidence, so it was worth to give it. . I assume you already have access to information about the people who read posts in LW in real time. and people who read old good posts (and then mostly don’t comment, because everyone moved on) and encounter site news randomly and with half a year of delay, are less visible by nature. so i expect people who don’t do that to underestimate out number :-)
(also, in the comments to Said-was-banned post there was a person who didn’t read all the post and assume everyone else didn’t, too. so maybe I’m over-correcting for typical mind fallacy here. at least, it definitely encouraged my to write this comment.)
Well, sort of. Your comment provides evidence for habryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 0 commenters finding their way here from that thread, but it provides evidence against hybryka’s claim compared to a counterfactual of 2 or more commenters finding their way here from that thread.
Overall rate of engagement remains low. It was stuck at 11 comments for 21 days before your comment, and has been stuck at 47 karma for at least the last 19 days. Karma and comments are imperfect proxies of readership, but they are what we have. In the counterfactual world where this post wasn’t unlisted, I expect engagement would have been far higher.
yeah, I don’t try to overstate the evidence. but it was the rare case where me being here provided evidence, so it was worth to give it. . I assume you already have access to information about the people who read posts in LW in real time. and people who read old good posts (and then mostly don’t comment, because everyone moved on) and encounter site news randomly and with half a year of delay, are less visible by nature. so i expect people who don’t do that to underestimate out number :-)
(also, in the comments to Said-was-banned post there was a person who didn’t read all the post and assume everyone else didn’t, too. so maybe I’m over-correcting for typical mind fallacy here. at least, it definitely encouraged my to write this comment.)