There is an option to only display only comments above a certain threshold. I tried to use a positive threshold (5 votes) but it doesn’t seem to work.
As an aside, I still find it much easier to sift through LW for good content, relative to other broad-domain sites. While I’m glad the ecosystem has diversified, it has become harder to find e.g. the good comments on a SSC piece, or to separate the wheat from the chaff on social media or single-author blogs.
It used to work, but then Eliezer decided that he didn’t trust the readers with this power. And that he didn’t trust readers with the knowledge of the rules.
Did he say something to that effect? A cursory look at the issue suggests that comment-hiding is broken entirely. Given that the config setting is still there, this strongly suggests a bug—if it were supposed to have been removed, the setting should’ve been removed, too.
It’s not very different from the current system of three tiers of posts: discussion, main, promoted. Except that situation is much worse because most people don’t know about the middle tier.
That’s not quite what I meant. If you have your interface set to filter out posts with less than +5 votes, as emr did above, that’s fine on its own. If the practice spreads far enough, though, then nobody sees anything, because nobody’s looking at the posts to do the votes to reach the threshold.
There is an option to only display only comments above a certain threshold. I tried to use a positive threshold (5 votes) but it doesn’t seem to work.
As an aside, I still find it much easier to sift through LW for good content, relative to other broad-domain sites. While I’m glad the ecosystem has diversified, it has become harder to find e.g. the good comments on a SSC piece, or to separate the wheat from the chaff on social media or single-author blogs.
It used to work, but then Eliezer decided that he didn’t trust the readers with this power. And that he didn’t trust readers with the knowledge of the rules.
Did he say something to that effect? A cursory look at the issue suggests that comment-hiding is broken entirely. Given that the config setting is still there, this strongly suggests a bug—if it were supposed to have been removed, the setting should’ve been removed, too.
Using a positive threshold seems like it could get counterproductive very fast.
It’s not very different from the current system of three tiers of posts: discussion, main, promoted. Except that situation is much worse because most people don’t know about the middle tier.
That’s not quite what I meant. If you have your interface set to filter out posts with less than +5 votes, as emr did above, that’s fine on its own. If the practice spreads far enough, though, then nobody sees anything, because nobody’s looking at the posts to do the votes to reach the threshold.