I partly support the spirit behind this feature, of providing more information (especially to the commenter), making the readers more engaged and involved, and expressing a reaction with more nuance than with a mere upvote/downvote. I also like that, as with karma, there are options for negative (but constructive) feedback, which I mentioned here when reviewing a different social discussions platform that had only positive reactions such as “Aha!” and “clarifying”.
In another sense, I suspect (but could be wrong) that this extra information could also have the opposite effect of “anchoring” the readers of the comments and biasing them towards the reactions left by others. If they saw that a comment had been reacted with a “verified” or “wrong”, for example, they could anchor on that before reading the comment. Maybe this effect would be less pronounced than in other communities, but I don’t think LessWrong would be unaffected by this.
(Comment on UI: when there are nested comments, it can be confusing to tell whether the reaction corresponds to the parent or the child comment:
I agree this is a concern. At an earlier stage of this prototype, the reactions were at the top with the rest of the voting buttons; moving them to the bottom was done partially to reduce the chance that you see the reactions before you’ve read it.
Moving the whole “action bar” to the end of the comment makes a lot of sense to me. Voting, agreement, and reactions should all happen AFTER reading, like reply does.
You MAY want to repeat the totals, non-interactively, at the top, if the intended use is filtering as a reader. IMO, most comments are short enough that this isn’t necessary.
I’ve mocked up a version of this. I suspect we’d ultimately want the karma/agreement available at the top of the comment, but might try shipping the MVP version for now.
It’s probably a thing with regular vote-score, but I think it’s worth the tradeoff of having scores at the top because when there are too many comments to read everything, the score feeds into the decision of what to read vs what to skim.
I partly support the spirit behind this feature, of providing more information (especially to the commenter), making the readers more engaged and involved, and expressing a reaction with more nuance than with a mere upvote/downvote. I also like that, as with karma, there are options for negative (but constructive) feedback, which I mentioned here when reviewing a different social discussions platform that had only positive reactions such as “Aha!” and “clarifying”.
In another sense, I suspect (but could be wrong) that this extra information could also have the opposite effect of “anchoring” the readers of the comments and biasing them towards the reactions left by others. If they saw that a comment had been reacted with a “verified” or “wrong”, for example, they could anchor on that before reading the comment. Maybe this effect would be less pronounced than in other communities, but I don’t think LessWrong would be unaffected by this.
(Comment on UI: when there are nested comments, it can be confusing to tell whether the reaction corresponds to the parent or the child comment:
Edit: I see Raemon already mentioned this)
I agree this is a concern. At an earlier stage of this prototype, the reactions were at the top with the rest of the voting buttons; moving them to the bottom was done partially to reduce the chance that you see the reactions before you’ve read it.
So, are you having similar thoughts about votes, too?
Moving the whole “action bar” to the end of the comment makes a lot of sense to me. Voting, agreement, and reactions should all happen AFTER reading, like reply does.
You MAY want to repeat the totals, non-interactively, at the top, if the intended use is filtering as a reader. IMO, most comments are short enough that this isn’t necessary.
I’ve mocked up a version of this. I suspect we’d ultimately want the karma/agreement available at the top of the comment, but might try shipping the MVP version for now.
It’s probably a thing with regular vote-score, but I think it’s worth the tradeoff of having scores at the top because when there are too many comments to read everything, the score feeds into the decision of what to read vs what to skim.
Reactions seem like they’re going to be far more likely to be useful for that purpose.
Perhaps they could be next to the “Reply” button, and fully contained in the comment’s container?