I notice that there’s a fair bit of “thread necromancy” on LessWrong. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, but I think it would be cool to have an option to filter comments based on the time gap between when the post was made and when the comment was made. That way it’s easier to see to see what the discussion was like around the time when the post was made.
On a related note, does LessWrong record when upvotes are made? It would also be cool to have a “time-machine” to see how up-votes and down-votes in a thread evolve over time. Could be good for analysing the behaviour of threads in the short term, and a way to see how community norms change in the long term.
You can order the comments by oldest first, which gives you at least some of that.
We do also record when all the votes are cast, so a timemachine is possible, though querying and aggregating all the votes for a large thread might be too much for a browser client.
I notice that there’s a fair bit of “thread necromancy” on LessWrong. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, but I think it would be cool to have an option to filter comments based on the time gap between when the post was made and when the comment was made. That way it’s easier to see to see what the discussion was like around the time when the post was made.
On a related note, does LessWrong record when upvotes are made? It would also be cool to have a “time-machine” to see how up-votes and down-votes in a thread evolve over time. Could be good for analysing the behaviour of threads in the short term, and a way to see how community norms change in the long term.
You can order the comments by oldest first, which gives you at least some of that.
We do also record when all the votes are cast, so a timemachine is possible, though querying and aggregating all the votes for a large thread might be too much for a browser client.