It occurs to me that I have somewhat different expectations and desires for reactions on Question posts, over regular Post.
On questions, it’s usually a lot more clear which comments are making concrete-progress towards answering the question, and which are not. It also seems like there’s more useful feedback to give people in terms of why an Answer was useful or un-useful. (and being able to see lots of micro-feedback might help people learn to write more useful answers)
Some things that I might want to react with include:
“Helped me become less confused”
“Nicely empirical” (something something “thanks for actually going out and checking”)
“Nice scholarship” (something something “thanks for actually going out and checking what the rest of the field said about something)
“Nice distillation” (“this summarized stuff that otherwise would have taken me forever to get through”)
With negative things including:
“Too anecdotal” (sometimes questions are asking for anecdotes, but often they’re specifically asking for non-anecdotal stuff and the anecdotes are just noise)
It occurs to me that I have somewhat different expectations and desires for reactions on Question posts, over regular Post.
On questions, it’s usually a lot more clear which comments are making concrete-progress towards answering the question, and which are not. It also seems like there’s more useful feedback to give people in terms of why an Answer was useful or un-useful. (and being able to see lots of micro-feedback might help people learn to write more useful answers)
Some things that I might want to react with include:
“Helped me become less confused”
“Nicely empirical” (something something “thanks for actually going out and checking”)
“Nice scholarship” (something something “thanks for actually going out and checking what the rest of the field said about something)
“Nice distillation” (“this summarized stuff that otherwise would have taken me forever to get through”)
With negative things including:
“Too anecdotal” (sometimes questions are asking for anecdotes, but often they’re specifically asking for non-anecdotal stuff and the anecdotes are just noise)
“Citation needed”
“This argument-chain is wrong”