If Calcsam is willing to spend the time, I’d rather he respond in a detailed “answers” discussion post rather than responding ad-hoc in this thread.
There is lots of meta in this thread. I wish for an answers post with the questions he’s responding to numbered and quoted. Then we could respond to the response with less clutter.
TBH I’d rather you just dived in and started replying to people. Doing what you propose throws away the valuable structure which is exactly why we have threading in the first place. Worse, it creates a barrier to you replying. It’s a bit of a shame to announce an AMA and then 132 comments later announce that you can’t answer anything until you’ve constructed your Answer Post. Just dive in and start replying; if there’s repetition you can always link to your replies elsewhere, or just answer one of them and let people figure it out.
Maybe afterward you could write up an answer post that summarizes some of the most important questions and/or is a summary of your evidence? It gets hard to find particular answers in posts with many interlocking nested comment threads. Don’t if it would be too much trouble, obviously, but I and probably several other people would appreciate it.
If Calcsam is willing to spend the time, I’d rather he respond in a detailed “answers” discussion post rather than responding ad-hoc in this thread.
There is lots of meta in this thread. I wish for an answers post with the questions he’s responding to numbered and quoted. Then we could respond to the response with less clutter.
Good idea.
TBH I’d rather you just dived in and started replying to people. Doing what you propose throws away the valuable structure which is exactly why we have threading in the first place. Worse, it creates a barrier to you replying. It’s a bit of a shame to announce an AMA and then 132 comments later announce that you can’t answer anything until you’ve constructed your Answer Post. Just dive in and start replying; if there’s repetition you can always link to your replies elsewhere, or just answer one of them and let people figure it out.
On second thought—and a lot of effort trying to write definitive replies—you’re right, I’ll post what I have.
Maybe afterward you could write up an answer post that summarizes some of the most important questions and/or is a summary of your evidence? It gets hard to find particular answers in posts with many interlocking nested comment threads. Don’t if it would be too much trouble, obviously, but I and probably several other people would appreciate it.