I am curious—this has a lot of upvotes and few comments. I’ve thought about this a bit and obviously think the suggestion is good, but I expect to run into hidden gotchas.
I’m interested if anyone has thoughts on “what are particular snags you’d expect such a policy to run into, both if it were naively implemented by individuals, and if implemented as a widescale policy (either on LW or elsewhere)
If the people that are discussing do not follow the convention of returning to the comment thread with a summary, or in order to continue the discussion, we will end up with comment threads ending abruptly. On the other hand, this could be seen as addresed by your “if you are not willing to do this work etc.”comment.
Could be funny though. Maybe, in these cases, the system can add an automated comment stating that “unfortunately the two parties never returned from their private chat...” :P
I am curious—this has a lot of upvotes and few comments. I’ve thought about this a bit and obviously think the suggestion is good, but I expect to run into hidden gotchas.
I’m interested if anyone has thoughts on “what are particular snags you’d expect such a policy to run into, both if it were naively implemented by individuals, and if implemented as a widescale policy (either on LW or elsewhere)
If the people that are discussing do not follow the convention of returning to the comment thread with a summary, or in order to continue the discussion, we will end up with comment threads ending abruptly. On the other hand, this could be seen as addresed by your “if you are not willing to do this work etc.” comment.
Could be funny though. Maybe, in these cases, the system can add an automated comment stating that “unfortunately the two parties never returned from their private chat...” :P