A thing that occurs to me after using this for a week:
I like being able to skim a thread and have my attention mostly directed to the good comments. However, this somewhat unfairly punishes new comments (which haven’t had a chance to attract karma)
The first 25 comments of a post are on even footing, since the truncation process hasn’t begun yet. But comments that arrive after the 25th will start being somewhat harder to inadvertently skim, and meanwhile the already-upvoted comments will probably continue to get upvoted.
Not sure how big an effect that is, but one possibility is to have new comments get the larger-abridging for about 24 hours.
A thing that occurs to me after using this for a week:
I like being able to skim a thread and have my attention mostly directed to the good comments. However, this somewhat unfairly punishes new comments (which haven’t had a chance to attract karma)
The first 25 comments of a post are on even footing, since the truncation process hasn’t begun yet. But comments that arrive after the 25th will start being somewhat harder to inadvertently skim, and meanwhile the already-upvoted comments will probably continue to get upvoted.
Not sure how big an effect that is, but one possibility is to have new comments get the larger-abridging for about 24 hours.