It seems to me that most people don’t bother putting things on the Open Thread if it’s more than five days old, and there isn’t any other random tat outlet.
I wonder how much of that is an issue of trivial inconvenience. Once the Open Thread is more than a few days old, locating where it is can take more work.
I think that would only solve this issue: “Once the Open Thread is more than a few days old, locating where it is can take more work.”
There is significantly less visibility with posting in an already crowded thread, and that’s the main reason people don’t like posting in it after a few days. This is also a problem with the repositories and other similar pages. Maybe the current format is bad for this, and a different format would be better, in addition to a more prominent link.
Well, it seems I’ve made an inadvertent test of this, although a very weak one, since I posted this to the open thread and got no responses. But I can’t rule out people just finding it to be not that interesting.
Making Light has a “see last 1000 comments” link which I find very useful. Granted, it’s more useful there (relatively few active threads at the same time) than here, but it would still help.
actually, I think the HPMoR comments don’t show up in recent comments unless you’re already looking at an HPMoR thread…
Is it just some setting I randomly edited on my profile and don’t remember editing?
I wasn’t drunk, I was sleep deprived. I DO admit that my mental capacity while sleep deprived looks a lot like the mental capacity of a drunk...but I happen to get dizzy and nauseous at the mere smell of alchohol, so the chance for me to be drunk is pretty slim, if not negligible.
In case you’re unaware of it, “Go home, X, you’re drunk” is something of an internet meme; paper-machine wasn’t making a serious accusation.
(One instance of this trope that’s attached to stuff that might amuse a fair fraction of LW readers: Go home, evolution, you are drunk. (Actual title “WTF, Evolution?” but the GHYAD meme is in the “About” section at the right.)
I wonder if always having the most recent open thread at the top of the most recent comments sidebar would effectively pull open thread content into the open thread
It seems to me that most people don’t bother putting things on the Open Thread if it’s more than five days old, and there isn’t any other random tat outlet.
I wonder how much of that is an issue of trivial inconvenience. Once the Open Thread is more than a few days old, locating where it is can take more work.
The value of posting something to the Open Thread also decays rapidly away from the first and fifteenth of the month.
Seems like we should have Open Threads more often.
No, just a link to it on the welcome page, along with some other important pages… Like the various repositories, and Public Annoucnements.
I think that would only solve this issue: “Once the Open Thread is more than a few days old, locating where it is can take more work.”
There is significantly less visibility with posting in an already crowded thread, and that’s the main reason people don’t like posting in it after a few days. This is also a problem with the repositories and other similar pages. Maybe the current format is bad for this, and a different format would be better, in addition to a more prominent link.
Well, it seems I’ve made an inadvertent test of this, although a very weak one, since I posted this to the open thread and got no responses. But I can’t rule out people just finding it to be not that interesting.
Why is that? I was under the impression that most people see new comments based on the recent comments display.
Most of the time, imo, recent comments moves too quickly to keep track of actual new comments, particularly when HPMoR updates.
Making Light has a “see last 1000 comments” link which I find very useful. Granted, it’s more useful there (relatively few active threads at the same time) than here, but it would still help.
actually, I think the HPMoR comments don’t show up in recent comments unless you’re already looking at an HPMoR thread… Is it just some setting I randomly edited on my profile and don’t remember editing?
Go home, fractalman; you’re drunk.
I wasn’t drunk, I was sleep deprived. I DO admit that my mental capacity while sleep deprived looks a lot like the mental capacity of a drunk...but I happen to get dizzy and nauseous at the mere smell of alchohol, so the chance for me to be drunk is pretty slim, if not negligible.
In case you’re unaware of it, “Go home, X, you’re drunk” is something of an internet meme; paper-machine wasn’t making a serious accusation.
(One instance of this trope that’s attached to stuff that might amuse a fair fraction of LW readers: Go home, evolution, you are drunk. (Actual title “WTF, Evolution?” but the GHYAD meme is in the “About” section at the right.)
It isn’t generally used with sentients, though.
“Recent comments” shows recent comments on Main if you’re on Main and recent comments on Discussion if you’re on discussion.
Ah, that makes sense.
I almost never use this to observe new content.
I wonder if always having the most recent open thread at the top of the most recent comments sidebar would effectively pull open thread content into the open thread