Another option would be heading-based voting, i.e. if you use headings in your comments, each one of those could become votable, or be treated internally as separate comments to vote on and reply to.
However, one problem with all such approaches (besides the big issue of increased UI complexity, of course) is that they’re kind of incompatible with the ability to edit one’s own comments—what if someone votes on a block quote or heading in you comment, and then you edit that part, or remove it altogether?
As someone who thinks out loud, I probably would annoy the heck out of you. I regularly make like five or six different orthogonal claims in one comment. My standard is “stream of consciousness, then edit like five times as I think of more things to say / better ways to say them”. It’s kind of a bad habit though and I should just make more comments.
Anyway, my point is that I agree and would like to be able to delineate claims in my comments too.
It would be super-cool to have a “claim delineation” feature, where someone could set up voting independently on each separable idea in a post.
Even when it comes to comments, I often wish people would break up their long comments more so I could vote separately on different claims.
What about a feature where you can mark block quotes in your own comment with ‘strong agree’, ‘weak agree’, ‘weak disagree’, or ‘strong disagree’?
Being able to optionally add agree/disagree voting UI to block quotes sounds sweet.
Another option would be heading-based voting, i.e. if you use headings in your comments, each one of those could become votable, or be treated internally as separate comments to vote on and reply to.
However, one problem with all such approaches (besides the big issue of increased UI complexity, of course) is that they’re kind of incompatible with the ability to edit one’s own comments—what if someone votes on a block quote or heading in you comment, and then you edit that part, or remove it altogether?
As someone who thinks out loud, I probably would annoy the heck out of you. I regularly make like five or six different orthogonal claims in one comment. My standard is “stream of consciousness, then edit like five times as I think of more things to say / better ways to say them”. It’s kind of a bad habit though and I should just make more comments.
Anyway, my point is that I agree and would like to be able to delineate claims in my comments too.