Reading this thread in the future, I find myself kinda wishing for ways comment threads like this could be auto-collapsed or resolved or something after reaching their conclusion.
Agreed, that would be a nice feature. The trick would be to have a good way of identifying such “now totally irrelevant, except for esoteric academic reasons” threads that wouldn’t run into any controversy or require non-trivial moderator attention.
The latest version of the “offtopic comment” feature that the team had chatted about was a “collapse” feature, where some comments are just forcibly collapsed with a flag, and this is just a generic tool that admins and some authors have access to. Doesn’t really require anything automatic, just, when you notice such a thread, you can close it. (It’s still appear in the comment list, just collapsed as if it had low karma, possibly with a reason displayed)
Yes, that is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind, which would clearly be open to all sorts of, perhaps not “abuse”, but at least—controversial application. It seems to me that it would be useful to differentiate such threads as this one we are discussing now, where nothing “on-topic” is really being discussed, and no one has nor could have any strong feelings about, etc. (This is not to say that the general-purpose tool you’re talking about would not also be useful—very plausibly it would.)
Interestingly, the code *isn’t* there in the lesswrong markdown editor.
In the past month or so, when we added the markdown editor, we made some changes to how the markdown and Rich editors work (basically making it sure every time the post is saved, it updates both versions of the data to be in sync with each other). If the last time you made a post with images was a month+ ago that might be related.
(I think you said greaterwrong specifically saves what _it_ remembers you entering for markdown, so that you don’t have to deal with frustration of our markdown editor, say, preferring underscores to asterixes. Is it possible the code that you still see is a result of that saved version?)
Hmm – apparently this just happened again when Kaj moved the post to curated. Apologies, but could you try re-saving it on greaterwrong again? I haven’t had time to fix the images bug yet.
It looks like opening a markdown post in the rich editor causes all the images to disappear, which probably happened when Ben moved the post to frontpage.
Uh, what happened to the images in this post? They showed up just fine when it was a draft, but now I don’t see them.
Reading this thread in the future, I find myself kinda wishing for ways comment threads like this could be auto-collapsed or resolved or something after reaching their conclusion.
Agreed, that would be a nice feature. The trick would be to have a good way of identifying such “now totally irrelevant, except for esoteric academic reasons” threads that wouldn’t run into any controversy or require non-trivial moderator attention.
The latest version of the “offtopic comment” feature that the team had chatted about was a “collapse” feature, where some comments are just forcibly collapsed with a flag, and this is just a generic tool that admins and some authors have access to. Doesn’t really require anything automatic, just, when you notice such a thread, you can close it. (It’s still appear in the comment list, just collapsed as if it had low karma, possibly with a reason displayed)
Yes, that is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind, which would clearly be open to all sorts of, perhaps not “abuse”, but at least—controversial application. It seems to me that it would be useful to differentiate such threads as this one we are discussing now, where nothing “on-topic” is really being discussed, and no one has nor could have any strong feelings about, etc. (This is not to say that the general-purpose tool you’re talking about would not also be useful—very plausibly it would.)
Huh. Were you editing on greaterwrong or lesswrong, and if the latter, were you in Rich or Markdown editing mode?
The former. But this hasn’t happened before…
Edit: Also, the code for the images is still there when I edit the post…! They just don’t display…
Interestingly, the code *isn’t* there in the lesswrong markdown editor.
In the past month or so, when we added the markdown editor, we made some changes to how the markdown and Rich editors work (basically making it sure every time the post is saved, it updates both versions of the data to be in sync with each other). If the last time you made a post with images was a month+ ago that might be related.
(I think you said greaterwrong specifically saves what _it_ remembers you entering for markdown, so that you don’t have to deal with frustration of our markdown editor, say, preferring underscores to asterixes. Is it possible the code that you still see is a result of that saved version?)
It seems that I have now fixed it by opening the post for editing (on GW) and re-saving it (without changing anything).
Hmm – apparently this just happened again when Kaj moved the post to curated. Apologies, but could you try re-saving it on greaterwrong again? I haven’t had time to fix the images bug yet.
Done.
It looks like opening a markdown post in the rich editor causes all the images to disappear, which probably happened when Ben moved the post to frontpage.
Ah, that sounds plausible.