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.
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.