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 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?