How do I put it, so as not to offend anyone… I think this is the right discussion for me to say that although I percieve this comment as positive, this definitely is not one I would wish to allocate my attention to, given the choice. I would have expected such posts to get downvoted. I suggest two separate systems of voting: one for positive fuzzy feelings, one for worthiness of attention. What I hope is that it would mitigate the reluctance to downvote (or to not upvote) stemming from the social nature of humans. I.e. we could continue not discouraging each other while still having a useful conversation.
Yeah. This is the sort of comment I’d consider tagging “off-topic” (probably while responding publicly to it to note that I am happy about the comment, so that the off-topic-ness clearly comes across like good management of people’s attention rather than a mean rebuke)
How do I put it, so as not to offend anyone… I think this is the right discussion for me to say that although I percieve this comment as positive, this definitely is not one I would wish to allocate my attention to, given the choice. I would have expected such posts to get downvoted. I suggest two separate systems of voting: one for positive fuzzy feelings, one for worthiness of attention. What I hope is that it would mitigate the reluctance to downvote (or to not upvote) stemming from the social nature of humans. I.e. we could continue not discouraging each other while still having a useful conversation.
Yeah. This is the sort of comment I’d consider tagging “off-topic” (probably while responding publicly to it to note that I am happy about the comment, so that the off-topic-ness clearly comes across like good management of people’s attention rather than a mean rebuke)