There’s this other economy to keep in mind of readers scrolling past walls of text. Often, I can and want to make what I’m saying cater to multiple attention spans (a la arbital?), and collapsed-by-default comments allow the reader to explore at will.
A strange worry (that may not be true for other people) is attempting to contribute to someone else’s long thread or list feels a little uncomfortable/rude without reading it all/carefully. With collapsed-by-default, you could set up norms that it’s okay to reply without engaging deeply.
It would be nice to have collapsing as part of the formatting
With this I already feel like I’m setting up a large-ish personal garden that would inhibit people from engaging in this conversation even if they want to, because there’s so much going on.
And I can’t edit this into my previous comment without cluttering it.
There’s obviously no need for having norms of “talking too much” when it’s decoupled from the rest of the control system
I do remember Eliezer saying in a small comment somewhere long ago that “the thumb rule is to not occupy more than three places in the Recent Comments page” (paraphrased).
As a meta-example, even to this I want to add:
There’s this other economy to keep in mind of readers scrolling past walls of text. Often, I can and want to make what I’m saying cater to multiple attention spans (a la arbital?), and collapsed-by-default comments allow the reader to explore at will.
A strange worry (that may not be true for other people) is attempting to contribute to someone else’s long thread or list feels a little uncomfortable/rude without reading it all/carefully. With collapsed-by-default, you could set up norms that it’s okay to reply without engaging deeply.
It would be nice to have collapsing as part of the formatting
With this I already feel like I’m setting up a large-ish personal garden that would inhibit people from engaging in this conversation even if they want to, because there’s so much going on.
And I can’t edit this into my previous comment without cluttering it.
There’s obviously no need for having norms of “talking too much” when it’s decoupled from the rest of the control system
I do remember Eliezer saying in a small comment somewhere long ago that “the thumb rule is to not occupy more than three places in the Recent Comments page” (paraphrased).