edit: It occurred to me that making this post might have violated some necroposting rule that I’m unaware of. I’m not certain of the etiquette here; was this impolite? I just thought it made more sense for someone who reads this discussion for the first time to have a link to where it was continued.
A lot of forums have threads sorted by most recent post date, so that commenting on an old thread moves it to the top. That’s annoying, but Less Wrong’s software doesn’t do that, so commenting on old posts is fine.
I had a thought on this, and the page is closed, so to continue to follow this discussion, go here:
http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/364/harry_potter_and_the_methods_of_rationality/3bn6
edit: It occurred to me that making this post might have violated some necroposting rule that I’m unaware of. I’m not certain of the etiquette here; was this impolite? I just thought it made more sense for someone who reads this discussion for the first time to have a link to where it was continued.
In general commenting on old posts in encouraged; for indexed posts like this forward-linking is probably best.
Oh, truly? Thanks for the information, that’s significantly different from most of the places I’ve hung around in before.
A lot of forums have threads sorted by most recent post date, so that commenting on an old thread moves it to the top. That’s annoying, but Less Wrong’s software doesn’t do that, so commenting on old posts is fine.