Another (mild) norm proposal: I am against comments that do a line-by-line reply to the comment it’s replying to.
I think it reliably makes a conversation very high effort and in-the-weeds, to the cost of talking about big picture disagreements. It often means there’s no part of the comment which communicates directly, saying “this is my response and where I think our overarching disagreement lies”, it just has lots of small pieces.
This is similar to my open thread post about google docs which was about how inline commenting seems to disincentivize big-picture responses.
It’s fine to drop threads in conversations, not everything needs to be addressed, the big picture is more important in most situations. Writing a flowing paragraph is often much better conversationally than loads of one-line replied to one-lines.
I think you’re right. I think inline comments are a good personal workflow when engaging with a post (when there’s a post I want to properly understand, I copy it to a google doc and comment it), but not for communicating the engagement
Another (mild) norm proposal: I am against comments that do a line-by-line reply to the comment it’s replying to.
I think it reliably makes a conversation very high effort and in-the-weeds, to the cost of talking about big picture disagreements. It often means there’s no part of the comment which communicates directly, saying “this is my response and where I think our overarching disagreement lies”, it just has lots of small pieces.
This is similar to my open thread post about google docs which was about how inline commenting seems to disincentivize big-picture responses.
It’s fine to drop threads in conversations, not everything needs to be addressed, the big picture is more important in most situations. Writing a flowing paragraph is often much better conversationally than loads of one-line replied to one-lines.
I think you’re right. I think inline comments are a good personal workflow when engaging with a post (when there’s a post I want to properly understand, I copy it to a google doc and comment it), but not for communicating the engagement