One of the main problems in Facebook conversations, in my view, is that the bar for commenting is way too low. You generally have to sift through a dozen “Nice! Great idea!” and so on to find the real conversations, and random acquaintances feel free to jump into a high level arguments with strawmans and ad hominem or straight up non sequiturs all the time.
Now I think LW comments seem to have the opposite problem (the bar feels too high), but all else equal this is the correct side to err on.
+1 on the concerns about Facebook conversations.
One of the main problems in Facebook conversations, in my view, is that the bar for commenting is way too low. You generally have to sift through a dozen “Nice! Great idea!” and so on to find the real conversations, and random acquaintances feel free to jump into a high level arguments with strawmans and ad hominem or straight up non sequiturs all the time.
Now I think LW comments seem to have the opposite problem (the bar feels too high), but all else equal this is the correct side to err on.