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Add a five-second delay before unhiding comments with low scores #442

Closed frediy closed 9 years ago

frediy commented 9 years ago

From endoself@gmail.com on September 02, 2012 11:34:36

A lot of LWers unhide comments that have been collapsed due to their low scores and then proceed to have long, useless, thread-derailing conversations. I propose that, upon clicking the button to unhide, there should be a five second delay before the comment is actually expanded. Waiting isn't fun and the delay prevents hyperbolic discounting from magnifying the positive reinforcement of reading something that someone doesn't want you to read.

I'd also like to make the meta-level request that future changes use our knowledge of human cognition to promote the sort of behaviour that we want rather than modifying the karma system in ways that make people fill discussion threads with negative affect, as in http://lesswrong.com/lw/eb9/meta_karma_for_last_30_days/

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=344

frediy commented 9 years ago

From endoself@gmail.com on September 01, 2012 18:45:12

Sorry, that last part was too snarky and now it seems I can't edit it. I'd like to retract that.

frediy commented 9 years ago

From Matthew.Fallshaw on October 18, 2012 19:55:22

Too annoying. This is LW - our users have all of the info they need to self-modify to avoid self-destructive behaviour.

Status: WontFix