Another problem: If I have I post on an outside blog and have an account on LessWrong, is the crosspost posted by my account? If it does, then it creates all sort of security issues. If it doesn’t, then it’ll get confusing.
I’m imagining you’d create an LW account if you didn’t have one.
1 & 2. Yes, it’s just two views into the same comment thread.
3 & 4. These are UI questions, but I would think having them work the same as on LW would make sense.
Yes the comment is posted by your LW account. This would be implemented by having the comment composition box be in a cross-domain iframe hosted on lesswrong.com. The independent blog can’t impersonate you.
Another problem: If I have I post on an outside blog and have an account on LessWrong, is the crosspost posted by my account? If it does, then it creates all sort of security issues. If it doesn’t, then it’ll get confusing.
I’m imagining you’d create an LW account if you didn’t have one.
1 & 2. Yes, it’s just two views into the same comment thread.
3 & 4. These are UI questions, but I would think having them work the same as on LW would make sense.
Yes the comment is posted by your LW account. This would be implemented by having the comment composition box be in a cross-domain iframe hosted on lesswrong.com. The independent blog can’t impersonate you.