Zach Weiner’s SMBC often expresses the LW ideas clearer, more succinctly and with more humor than EY, and I see nothing wrong with linking to a good explanation.
I’m a little torn. Do we actually need a separate thread for each one? Well, no. But I do like being able to share in this kind of humor (that’s “share IN”, not just “share”) with people who get the jokes on the level that I do.
Ideally we’d just have on SMBC thread that we follow, but Less Wrong discussion isn’t set up in a way that makes it easy to showcase when new comments are happening in an old thread (yes, I know you can save threads, but it’s not the same as a forum that actually bumps recent discussion to the top).
I like and support the idea, but I’m not confident that it should be the default (Edit: Or am I?). I think threads around a week old still get comments fairly often (correct me if I’m wrong) and this might make it a bit harder for new posts to get exposure. I’m also not confident that it shouldn’t be the default though, and I’m thinking of reasons it should as I type this.
1) People that visit the discussion page (for the first time and otherwise) will see active conversations.
2) Interesting things will stay at the top longer.
3) No need for new posts to bring new information to past posts (already mentioned).
I don’t feel like deleting this comment, but I think these benefits outweigh the problems I mentioned earlier. It would make it a bit less “blog-like” though (it is a bit forum-like as it is, though, and this doesn’t appear to be a problem).
Agree, with the caveat that posts less than, say, a day old, or with less than, say, 5 comments, should be near the top. Otherwise good posts might slip through the cracks and never get discussed.
I did have some degree of fear of downvoting, but a few times in the past, I’ve seen an article or something I thought I might post about, but decided it wasn’t interesting enough, only for someone else to post about it later, which I took to mean I was being too down on myself about what I thought other readers might find interesting.
Maybe the humour category is less interesting than I had hoped.
I’m sorry you had to be the one to inspire this comment.
But we don’t really need to bring up webcomics every time they mention something pertinent to Less Wrong.
Zach Weiner’s SMBC often expresses the LW ideas clearer, more succinctly and with more humor than EY, and I see nothing wrong with linking to a good explanation.
I’m a little torn. Do we actually need a separate thread for each one? Well, no. But I do like being able to share in this kind of humor (that’s “share IN”, not just “share”) with people who get the jokes on the level that I do.
Ideally we’d just have on SMBC thread that we follow, but Less Wrong discussion isn’t set up in a way that makes it easy to showcase when new comments are happening in an old thread (yes, I know you can save threads, but it’s not the same as a forum that actually bumps recent discussion to the top).
A function to sort by recently commented would work.
This should absolutely exist. I’m curious if anyone has a particular reason not to make it the default?
I like and support the idea, but I’m not confident that it should be the default (Edit: Or am I?). I think threads around a week old still get comments fairly often (correct me if I’m wrong) and this might make it a bit harder for new posts to get exposure. I’m also not confident that it shouldn’t be the default though, and I’m thinking of reasons it should as I type this.
1) People that visit the discussion page (for the first time and otherwise) will see active conversations. 2) Interesting things will stay at the top longer. 3) No need for new posts to bring new information to past posts (already mentioned).
I don’t feel like deleting this comment, but I think these benefits outweigh the problems I mentioned earlier. It would make it a bit less “blog-like” though (it is a bit forum-like as it is, though, and this doesn’t appear to be a problem).
I think it’s perfectly okay for the main section to be blog-like and the discussion section to be forum-like.
Pretty much agree that yes, there are some consequences to making it default, but positive consequences outweigh negative ones.
Agree, with the caveat that posts less than, say, a day old, or with less than, say, 5 comments, should be near the top. Otherwise good posts might slip through the cracks and never get discussed.
I did have some degree of fear of downvoting, but a few times in the past, I’ve seen an article or something I thought I might post about, but decided it wasn’t interesting enough, only for someone else to post about it later, which I took to mean I was being too down on myself about what I thought other readers might find interesting. Maybe the humour category is less interesting than I had hoped.
I agree. I will say, however, that this one is funnier to my taste than any of those links were.