Late as I am, I think this is a real waste of bandwidth. Not only is almost no one participating, but those that do, directly violate the idea of this website that no article is too old to comment on. And it’s useless to everyone who wasn’t there at the beginning of the rerun. Has anyone who hasn’t read the sequences ever wanted this? I’m pretty convinced it doesn’t help anyone at all.
I wouldn’t even mind if it didn’t say to discuss the sequences on the rerun posts instead of the main posts. This is only going to cause confusion, with discussions broken and threaded and fucking broken. I mean, if I want to see the most recent discussion on an article, I’m going to ctrl+f “2011” on that page. I’m not going to go looking for a tiny chance of comments on one of the SEQ_Rerun tagged posts.
I’m calling for it to end. It’s still not even a quarter done, the first (and, I hope, last) rerun, so there’s just no reason not to end it. Or at least fix it so it doesn’t say to post comments on the rerun posts anymore, like alexflint says.
And it’s useless to everyone who wasn’t there at the beginning of the rerun. Has anyone who hasn’t read the sequences ever wanted this? I’m pretty convinced it doesn’t help anyone at all.
I am quite confident that this opinion is one that is shared with other LW members, although you are the first person to say so that I have seen. I have had several people who have told me that they appreciate the reruns (in private messages, and in actual conversations). A couple of those conversations were with LW lurkers, who are not commenting (and are unlikely to create accounts just to participate in the very limited discussions that go on there). I would guess that there a substantial number of others like them.
I would additionally bet that there are a lot of LW members who are not commenting, but still reading (if there’s a way to check the number of views on a page per day, that would be some useful data to collect). There also just isn’t much to comment about in the sequences. When they were being written, they were the strange and often controversial opinions of this guy named Eliezer Yudkowsky on Robin Hanson’s blog. Now, those ideas are commonplace and widely accepted in the community. At this point, anyone who has something new to say about the Torture vs. Specks problem is really just going to write a new post. At this point, I would bet a lot of people who joined Less Wrong after the sequences were written are just interested in reading the collected ideas in the sequences in the order that they were written, as a coherent whole.
With regards to the comments issue, I agree. Initially, I thought that the comments should go on the original posts, but a poll of LWers decided against it, because of concerns that it would clog up the “recent posts” feature. I didn’t see alexflint’s post until now, but given that the number of comments are typically low, I don’t think that this is much of a concern anymore. As a result, I have created this poll.
I like the reruns! I haven’t read all the sequences (and I’m sure I’m not the only “regular” (for some value of regular) who hasn’t), so it’s interesting when a post I haven’t seen (or can’t remember) pops up.
And even if I have seen it, often posts are worth a re-read. Or, spending a few minutes thinking about it again.
(Sure, I could go through them day-by-day personally, but I don’t think I would do it reliably by myself.)
Furthermore, it means that every sequence post gets a summary in the wiki (thanks MinibearRex, and others!).
Late as I am, I think this is a real waste of bandwidth. Not only is almost no one participating, but those that do, directly violate the idea of this website that no article is too old to comment on. And it’s useless to everyone who wasn’t there at the beginning of the rerun. Has anyone who hasn’t read the sequences ever wanted this? I’m pretty convinced it doesn’t help anyone at all.
I wouldn’t even mind if it didn’t say to discuss the sequences on the rerun posts instead of the main posts. This is only going to cause confusion, with discussions broken and threaded and fucking broken. I mean, if I want to see the most recent discussion on an article, I’m going to ctrl+f “2011” on that page. I’m not going to go looking for a tiny chance of comments on one of the SEQ_Rerun tagged posts.
I’m calling for it to end. It’s still not even a quarter done, the first (and, I hope, last) rerun, so there’s just no reason not to end it. Or at least fix it so it doesn’t say to post comments on the rerun posts anymore, like alexflint says.
I am quite confident that this opinion is one that is shared with other LW members, although you are the first person to say so that I have seen. I have had several people who have told me that they appreciate the reruns (in private messages, and in actual conversations). A couple of those conversations were with LW lurkers, who are not commenting (and are unlikely to create accounts just to participate in the very limited discussions that go on there). I would guess that there a substantial number of others like them.
I would additionally bet that there are a lot of LW members who are not commenting, but still reading (if there’s a way to check the number of views on a page per day, that would be some useful data to collect). There also just isn’t much to comment about in the sequences. When they were being written, they were the strange and often controversial opinions of this guy named Eliezer Yudkowsky on Robin Hanson’s blog. Now, those ideas are commonplace and widely accepted in the community. At this point, anyone who has something new to say about the Torture vs. Specks problem is really just going to write a new post. At this point, I would bet a lot of people who joined Less Wrong after the sequences were written are just interested in reading the collected ideas in the sequences in the order that they were written, as a coherent whole.
With regards to the comments issue, I agree. Initially, I thought that the comments should go on the original posts, but a poll of LWers decided against it, because of concerns that it would clog up the “recent posts” feature. I didn’t see alexflint’s post until now, but given that the number of comments are typically low, I don’t think that this is much of a concern anymore. As a result, I have created this poll.
I like the reruns! I haven’t read all the sequences (and I’m sure I’m not the only “regular” (for some value of regular) who hasn’t), so it’s interesting when a post I haven’t seen (or can’t remember) pops up.
And even if I have seen it, often posts are worth a re-read. Or, spending a few minutes thinking about it again.
(Sure, I could go through them day-by-day personally, but I don’t think I would do it reliably by myself.)
Furthermore, it means that every sequence post gets a summary in the wiki (thanks MinibearRex, and others!).