Apologies for just criticising without a constructive suggestion (hopng for an indication of whether anyone else thinks it’s a problem first), but:
Anyone reading the sequences this way doesn’t see the comments. That seems to me to be a non-trivial loss. Even the trolls; they were training material.
The major issue in implementing this would be the width of eReaders. As replies get further nested, the more to the right they should be. On your average Kindle, it might only be able to go to 4 or so levels before having to wrap around (am I making sense?)
It is true that there are sometimes interesting bits of information and discussion in the article comments, but the good stuff to reading time and effort ratio is much lower (specially because you can’t just the “Sort By: Top” function to get the most upvoted replies). Considering the high time investment nature that is already inherent in the sequences, I think the commentless versions are optimal for most readers.
Maybe an editor collecting the sequences could select and include particularly enlightening comments, though.
Apologies for just criticising without a constructive suggestion (hopng for an indication of whether anyone else thinks it’s a problem first), but:
Anyone reading the sequences this way doesn’t see the comments. That seems to me to be a non-trivial loss. Even the trolls; they were training material.
The major issue in implementing this would be the width of eReaders. As replies get further nested, the more to the right they should be. On your average Kindle, it might only be able to go to 4 or so levels before having to wrap around (am I making sense?)
It is true that there are sometimes interesting bits of information and discussion in the article comments, but the good stuff to reading time and effort ratio is much lower (specially because you can’t just the “Sort By: Top” function to get the most upvoted replies). Considering the high time investment nature that is already inherent in the sequences, I think the commentless versions are optimal for most readers.
Maybe an editor collecting the sequences could select and include particularly enlightening comments, though.
Does not work for the sequences. They were mostly pre comment voting so karma is non representative.