I too had to estimate my time in the community (even though this is my first day posting anything)—I started lurking shortly after Yvain mentioned it in his blog, but he is a prolific enough writer that digging through those archives would be a mind-numbing task. Perhaps there’s someone else who’s done the dirty work for me? (hoping)
Last time, I figured it out by writing a script that went through my comments until it hit the earliest one, but that only worked because I made an account as soon as I got here. (I probably could have gone hunting for the results of that script, but I didn’t care as much this time around.)
I imagine Yvain has mentioned LW on his blog enough times that it’d be difficult to do an automated solution (but you might be able to just make a list of links to LW from posts, then choose from those).
Thanks for the idea. I know he referenced OvercomingBias for a while before LessWrong, and I read a handful of articles there, but I think my sparse interest in following anything, aside from what was crossposted or linked at Yvain’s blog, makes any claim of seniority a potential false representation of my expertise.
This is sort of the inverse problem of the way I counted the start of my last relationship more than a year earlier than my then-partner would. One good thing I can say for weddings (aside from marriage) is that at least they solidify a date to count as anniversary. So, I suppose now that I’ve finally registered an account, I can count today for future anniversaries between myself and LessWrong.
I too had to estimate my time in the community (even though this is my first day posting anything)—I started lurking shortly after Yvain mentioned it in his blog, but he is a prolific enough writer that digging through those archives would be a mind-numbing task. Perhaps there’s someone else who’s done the dirty work for me? (hoping)
Last time, I figured it out by writing a script that went through my comments until it hit the earliest one, but that only worked because I made an account as soon as I got here. (I probably could have gone hunting for the results of that script, but I didn’t care as much this time around.)
I imagine Yvain has mentioned LW on his blog enough times that it’d be difficult to do an automated solution (but you might be able to just make a list of links to LW from posts, then choose from those).
Thanks for the idea. I know he referenced OvercomingBias for a while before LessWrong, and I read a handful of articles there, but I think my sparse interest in following anything, aside from what was crossposted or linked at Yvain’s blog, makes any claim of seniority a potential false representation of my expertise.
This is sort of the inverse problem of the way I counted the start of my last relationship more than a year earlier than my then-partner would. One good thing I can say for weddings (aside from marriage) is that at least they solidify a date to count as anniversary. So, I suppose now that I’ve finally registered an account, I can count today for future anniversaries between myself and LessWrong.