The key question of what comments are for and where you might create a new post. The bar to creating new posts on LessWrong is lower then the bar to publishing academic articles.
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.
The design of LessWrong is generally more optimized for getting people to write posts then it is for getting people to write comments.
As far as my own commenting experience goes I don’t feel like it’s central whether or not a post is on the frontpage. 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. Many people read a post once and then go to the comments and engage with them. On the other hand they don’t go that often again to the comment section.
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.
We could have a setting where strongly upvoting a post automatically activates comment subscriptions. We could also simply show the buttons directly instead of behind a hamburger menu.
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.
The key question of what comments are for and where you might create a new post. The bar to creating new posts on LessWrong is lower then the bar to publishing academic articles.
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.
The design of LessWrong is generally more optimized for getting people to write posts then it is for getting people to write comments.
As far as my own commenting experience goes I don’t feel like it’s central whether or not a post is on the frontpage. 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. Many people read a post once and then go to the comments and engage with them. On the other hand they don’t go that often again to the comment section.
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.
We could have a setting where strongly upvoting a post automatically activates comment subscriptions. We could also simply show the buttons directly instead of 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.