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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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Re: GW – obviously the GW team has limited time, but there shouldn't be anything stopping them from implementing these features. And in the meanwhile, if you hop over to lesswrong.com to use a feature (such as deleting a comment or banning .a user) it should have the desired effect over on greaterwrong.
I do expect, as the LW team tries more and more experimental things that are designed to radically change the shape of the site, that the GW experience will start to feel a bit confusing, depending on how much time the GW team has to implement things.
[note to GW team: I know at least part of the problem is that the LW team hasn't been that proactive about communicating our plans. My current impression is that you're sufficiently bottlenecked on dev-time that doing so wouldn't really help, but if you thought otherwise I could maybe arrange for that]
One recent example are Related Questions, which I expect to be a major component of how the questions feature (and the site overall) ends up working. The greaterwrong version of this question doesn't show it's parent question, either at the top of the page or in a list further down, which changes the context of the question quite a bit. See the lesswrong version).
(Related questions overall are still in a "soft beta" where we're still tweaking them a bunch and aren't confident that they're usable enough to really advertise, but I expect that to change within a couple weeks)
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.