I… do want to flag something like “You say you want less attention on posts like this, but, then you commented 15 times on this+the-other-post. Do you endorse that?”
It’s not obvious to me whether people-in-general or you-in-particular are spending too much time on this. But.… as the saying goes “You’re not ‘stuck in traffic.’ You are traffic.” And, you’re not stuck in drama. You are drama.
I do think there are things we could do on the margin to nudge people somewhat away from drama posts (it turns out EA Forum automatically hides community posts with lots of comments from their Recent Discussion section and I kinda like that idea).
I think I basically do want established community members putting thought into this, but I think my preferred outcome is something like… jury duty? Like, either explicitly or organically, a few senior members put a lot of time into understanding the situation, hearing evidence from various sources, and writing up their thoughts. But not everyone needs to get consumed.
But, regardless want to flag that if you think there’s too much attention here, adding comments is a fairly odd.
I… do want to flag something like “You say you want less attention on posts like this, but, then you commented 15 times on this+the-other-post. Do you endorse that?”
No, I got sucked in and don’t endorse it.
It’s been a planning fallacy sort of thing. “Zooming in on this one thing, it doesn’t seem too time consuming or bad to jump into. Zooming out: I spent how many hours on this?”
I’m going to try from here on out to be pretty selective about reading and commenting more. I’m not sure how successful I’ll end up being though.
I appreciate you pointing this out. I was thinking of bringing it up.
I think I basically do want established community members putting thought into this, but I think my preferred outcome is something like… jury duty?
I like that jury duty analogy. It sounds like a good approach to me.
I… do want to flag something like “You say you want less attention on posts like this, but, then you commented 15 times on this+the-other-post. Do you endorse that?”
It’s not obvious to me whether people-in-general or you-in-particular are spending too much time on this. But.… as the saying goes “You’re not ‘stuck in traffic.’ You are traffic.” And, you’re not stuck in drama. You are drama.
I do think there are things we could do on the margin to nudge people somewhat away from drama posts (it turns out EA Forum automatically hides community posts with lots of comments from their Recent Discussion section and I kinda like that idea).
I think I basically do want established community members putting thought into this, but I think my preferred outcome is something like… jury duty? Like, either explicitly or organically, a few senior members put a lot of time into understanding the situation, hearing evidence from various sources, and writing up their thoughts. But not everyone needs to get consumed.
But, regardless want to flag that if you think there’s too much attention here, adding comments is a fairly odd.
No, I got sucked in and don’t endorse it.
It’s been a planning fallacy sort of thing. “Zooming in on this one thing, it doesn’t seem too time consuming or bad to jump into. Zooming out: I spent how many hours on this?”
I’m going to try from here on out to be pretty selective about reading and commenting more. I’m not sure how successful I’ll end up being though.I appreciate you pointing this out. I was thinking of bringing it up.
I like that jury duty analogy. It sounds like a good approach to me.