Quick thought: I think you are relying too much on your own experience which I don’t expect to generalize well. Different people will have different habits on how much thought they put to their comments, and I expect some put too much thought and some too. We should put more effort at identifying the aggregate tendencies of people at this forum before we make reccomendations.
Then again, perhaps you are just offering the idea casually, so it’s okay. Still I worry that the most likely future pathways for posts like this are “get ignored” and “get cited uncritically”, and there’s no clear place for this more thorough investigation.
What I wanted my post to come across as was, “Here’s a very particular was that I realize I do things incorrectly, and here’s how I think I’m going to change my behaviour. If you were making the same mistake, this could help you.” Though as I reread, I do get a sense that the post is making borader and more generalized claims than what I wanted. It seems like I’m saying “This is a way people would be bad at an open thread.” but really I wanted to say, “This is how I would be bad at an open thread.”
I’ll try to make that distinciton more clear in future posts.
Quick thought: I think you are relying too much on your own experience which I don’t expect to generalize well. Different people will have different habits on how much thought they put to their comments, and I expect some put too much thought and some too. We should put more effort at identifying the aggregate tendencies of people at this forum before we make reccomendations.
Then again, perhaps you are just offering the idea casually, so it’s okay. Still I worry that the most likely future pathways for posts like this are “get ignored” and “get cited uncritically”, and there’s no clear place for this more thorough investigation.
What I wanted my post to come across as was, “Here’s a very particular was that I realize I do things incorrectly, and here’s how I think I’m going to change my behaviour. If you were making the same mistake, this could help you.” Though as I reread, I do get a sense that the post is making borader and more generalized claims than what I wanted. It seems like I’m saying “This is a way people would be bad at an open thread.” but really I wanted to say, “This is how I would be bad at an open thread.”
I’ll try to make that distinciton more clear in future posts.