When the amount of effort to engage in an intellectual conversation reaches a certain level, it’s worth creating a new post in LessWrong and have a pingback.
Yeah, after some discussion in the comments section I now agree with this.
Writing a comment the day after a post is posted gets significantly more reponses then a week afterwards even when the post is still on the frontpage.
Good point, I agree. I actually did have this in mind but found it easier to just talk about “frontpage”. In retrospect, maybe that was a bad idea.
Instead of using the frontpage I think it would be better to use notifactions more. Currently, “subscribe to comments” is hidden behind a hamburger menu and thus seldomly used. If more people would use “subscribe to comments” we likely would get more long-running discussions in the comments.
Huh, I always imagined that being subscribed is the default and that most people are subscribed. Regardless, I think that what AllAmericanBreakfast is saying here is important, and with what you propose with notifications, Alice wouldn’t realize that Bob is subscribed to comments.
The author of a post gets notification to all comments on the post by default additionally the person who writes a comment gets notifications about replies to their comments.
Additionally, there’s a feature that allows you to subscribe to posts to get notifications similarly to being the author of the post and that feature is currently hidden behind a hamburger menu.
Yeah, after some discussion in the comments section I now agree with this.
Good point, I agree. I actually did have this in mind but found it easier to just talk about “frontpage”. In retrospect, maybe that was a bad idea.
Huh, I always imagined that being subscribed is the default and that most people are subscribed. Regardless, I think that what AllAmericanBreakfast is saying here is important, and with what you propose with notifications, Alice wouldn’t realize that Bob is subscribed to comments.
The author of a post gets notification to all comments on the post by default additionally the person who writes a comment gets notifications about replies to their comments.
Additionally, there’s a feature that allows you to subscribe to posts to get notifications similarly to being the author of the post and that feature is currently hidden behind a hamburger menu.
Gotcha. Maybe it’d be a good idea to display how many people are currently subscribed to a post.