Many of the old posts have unthreaded comments. So maybe it would be good to allow an option to sort comments “oldest first”, since this is the most natural way of reading unthreaded comments? In fact, maybe it should be the default comment sorting for such old posts? I seem to recall that this was the case on the old LW site even though newer posts there had comments sorted by karma.
Also, it is a little awkward that the karma on old comments is (old upvote/downvote count, with each vote worth 1 point) + (new upvote/downvote count, with vote weight determined by user karma). It means that when I upvote an old comment it suddenly jumps e.g. from 1 to 4 karma, higher than anything around it. Though I don’t know if there is anything reasonable to do about this.
Ah, you’re right. I think it’s still decently readable with the “most recent” sorting algorithm, but I do think we should also provide an “oldest first” sort.
Now I am noticing a phenomenon with upvoting where I accidentally double-click on an upvote, and it downvotes the comment instead. When I press the upvote button more times then the comment karma seems to behave randomly but eventually goes far into the negatives. I guess this must be designed to guard against spam upvotes or DoS attacks or something like that? Anyway, I am frustrated that when I wanted to upvote a comment I seem to have ended up downvoting it instead, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change it.
By the way, is there a better place to report issues like this than just writing comments in threads like these?
Many of the old posts have unthreaded comments. So maybe it would be good to allow an option to sort comments “oldest first”, since this is the most natural way of reading unthreaded comments? In fact, maybe it should be the default comment sorting for such old posts? I seem to recall that this was the case on the old LW site even though newer posts there had comments sorted by karma.
Also, it is a little awkward that the karma on old comments is (old upvote/downvote count, with each vote worth 1 point) + (new upvote/downvote count, with vote weight determined by user karma). It means that when I upvote an old comment it suddenly jumps e.g. from 1 to 4 karma, higher than anything around it. Though I don’t know if there is anything reasonable to do about this.
Ah, you’re right. I think it’s still decently readable with the “most recent” sorting algorithm, but I do think we should also provide an “oldest first” sort.
Now I am noticing a phenomenon with upvoting where I accidentally double-click on an upvote, and it downvotes the comment instead. When I press the upvote button more times then the comment karma seems to behave randomly but eventually goes far into the negatives. I guess this must be designed to guard against spam upvotes or DoS attacks or something like that? Anyway, I am frustrated that when I wanted to upvote a comment I seem to have ended up downvoting it instead, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change it.
By the way, is there a better place to report issues like this than just writing comments in threads like these?
I also noticed this today for the first time. This is not intentional, and I am not really sure what’s causing it. We will have to look into that.
Github is usually the best place to report issues: https://github.com/Discordius/Lesswrong2/tree/devel