I just came back and found my post had been moved back to Main. I began answering comments on it, and then suddenly it went away. It appears to have been deleted. My post, and all comments on it, are gone, without anyone contacting me about it.
What probably happened is that I edited the post, neglected to change the setting at the bottom of the page from “Main” to “Discussion”, clicked submit, and sent it back into main. Then Eliezer probably noticed it in main, assumed I’d put it there, and deleted it.
I just came back and found my post had been moved back to Main. I began answering comments on it, and then suddenly it went away. It appears to have been deleted. My post, and all comments on it, are gone, without anyone contacting me about it.
Wow. This is a serious problem. Moving to discussion is one thing. But full deletion for what seems to be no particular reason is… not what I usually expect here.
EDIT: Ahh, I see you have answered. A bug (‘quirk’) of the post edit page caused an accidental move which was interpreted as insubordination and punished in retaliation.
Well, yeah. I mean I moved it to Discussion once, it was deliberately moved back to Main, I moved it to Discussion again, then it was moved back to Main again, so I hit ‘Ban’. Er, duh?
Well, yeah. I mean I moved it to Discussion once, it was deliberately moved back to Main, I moved it to Discussion again, then it was moved back to Main again, so I hit ‘Ban’. Er, duh?
It seems it may have been accidental, rather than deliberate. If so that would seem to be a simple bug in the lesswrong source. ie. Almost certainly 1 line of code in the part that selects which option starts selected on the edit page.
The saddest thing is that work on the comment deletion race condition situation is all lost; the whole thread will likely repeat itself at some later date.
The saddest thing is that work on the comment deletion race condition situation is all lost; the whole thread will likely repeat itself at some later date.
And ‘lost’ is a particularly good description here. Because the analysis is still there on user pages but it is now impossible to link to said comments directly.
I hope the ban on the post can be reversed. This intervention was annoyingly destructive (at the ‘nuisance’ level).
I just came back and found my post had been moved back to Main. I began answering comments on it, and then suddenly it went away. It appears to have been deleted. My post, and all comments on it, are gone, without anyone contacting me about it.
What probably happened is that I edited the post, neglected to change the setting at the bottom of the page from “Main” to “Discussion”, clicked submit, and sent it back into main. Then Eliezer probably noticed it in main, assumed I’d put it there, and deleted it.
Okay… if it wasn’t you who moved it back to Main a second time, I’ll move to Discussion and undelete.
That shit isn’t even logged by who did it?
Wow. This is a serious problem. Moving to discussion is one thing. But full deletion for what seems to be no particular reason is… not what I usually expect here.
I am taking from this comment that it wasn’t you (Phil) who moved the comment back to main?
EDIT: Ahh, I see you have answered. A bug (‘quirk’) of the post edit page caused an accidental move which was interpreted as insubordination and punished in retaliation.
Well, yeah. I mean I moved it to Discussion once, it was deliberately moved back to Main, I moved it to Discussion again, then it was moved back to Main again, so I hit ‘Ban’. Er, duh?
It seems it may have been accidental, rather than deliberate. If so that would seem to be a simple bug in the lesswrong source. ie. Almost certainly 1 line of code in the part that selects which option starts selected on the edit page.
And so I put it back in Discussion, of course.
That wouldn’t have helped, since I’d probably already loaded the page before it was moved back to discussion.
Something that detects edit conflicts, as on Wikipedia?
It seems that you should reconsider that stance, given the apparent probability of bugs.
The saddest thing is that work on the comment deletion race condition situation is all lost; the whole thread will likely repeat itself at some later date.
And ‘lost’ is a particularly good description here. Because the analysis is still there on user pages but it is now impossible to link to said comments directly.
I hope the ban on the post can be reversed. This intervention was annoyingly destructive (at the ‘nuisance’ level).