After a quick look at some of this user’s other comments and posts, I would like to register, for the purpose of establishing common knowledge, that this is a user whose further contributions to LW I, personally, do not much desire.
This is really really bad design. It 100% looks like dxu is a new comment thread that is referring to the original poster, not a hidden deleted comment that could be saying the complete opposite of the original poster...
I… think I agree. I think I will give them a timeout of a few months, and delete some of the recent content to not distract further from more productive discussion.
After a quick look at some of this user’s other comments and posts, I would like to register, for the purpose of establishing common knowledge, that this is a user whose further contributions to LW I, personally, do not much desire.
Who do you mean by this user? Jbash, gwern...? And why?
There is a deleted comment parent to dxu’s which is not very obvious in the interface due to being represented by a single arrow glyph.
This is really really bad design. It 100% looks like dxu is a new comment thread that is referring to the original poster, not a hidden deleted comment that could be saying the complete opposite of the original poster...
Could someone on the LessWrong team get on fixing this semi-urgently? This could (and in this case almost did) lead to extreme misunderstandings
Should now presumably be less confusing.
I… think I agree. I think I will give them a timeout of a few months, and delete some of the recent content to not distract further from more productive discussion.