I’d at least want to see a second established user asking for it before I considered prioritizing it more.
I doubt you’ll ever see this, because when you’re an established / high status member, ignoring other people feels pretty natural and right, and few people ignore you so you don’t notice any problems. I made the request back when I had lower status on this forum. I got ignored by others way more than I do now, and ignored others way less than I do now. (I had higher motivation to “prove” myself to my critics and the audience.)
If I hadn’t written down my request back then, in all likelihood I would have forgotten my old perspective and wouldn’t be talking about this today.
“Getting annoying comments that miss the point” is one of the most cited things people dislike about LW, and forcing authors to engage with them seems like it’d exacerbate it.)
In my original feature request, I had a couple of “agreement statuses” that require only minimal engagement, like “I don’t understand this. I give up.” and “I disagree, but don’t want to bother writing out why.” We could easily add more, like “I think further engagement won’t be productive.” or “This isn’t material to my main point.” And then we could experiment with setting norms for how much social reward or punishment to give out for such responses (if people’s natural reactions to them cause bad consequences). I wouldn’t be surprised that such a system ends up making authors more willing or more comfortable to engage less with annoying critics, and makes their LW experience better, by making it more explicit that it’s ok to engage with such critics minimally.
I doubt you’ll ever see this, because when you’re an established / high status member, ignoring other people feels pretty natural and right, and few people ignore you so you don’t notice any problems. I made the request back when I had lower status on this forum. I got ignored by others way more than I do now, and ignored others way less than I do now. (I had higher motivation to “prove” myself to my critics and the audience.)
If I hadn’t written down my request back then, in all likelihood I would have forgotten my old perspective and wouldn’t be talking about this today.
In my original feature request, I had a couple of “agreement statuses” that require only minimal engagement, like “I don’t understand this. I give up.” and “I disagree, but don’t want to bother writing out why.” We could easily add more, like “I think further engagement won’t be productive.” or “This isn’t material to my main point.” And then we could experiment with setting norms for how much social reward or punishment to give out for such responses (if people’s natural reactions to them cause bad consequences). I wouldn’t be surprised that such a system ends up making authors more willing or more comfortable to engage less with annoying critics, and makes their LW experience better, by making it more explicit that it’s ok to engage with such critics minimally.