I’ve already been whingeing at Ben in PMs about the comment-abridging system; Ben, if you’re reading this, feel free to ignore it since I promised I’d shut up about it :-). Anyway, this is just to go on record as really disliking this “feature”, which I think encourages superficial skimming over careful reading, makes it a big pain to engage fully with what others have said (because you have to expand lots of things separately), and just generally feels to me as if it does nothing I can see why I should actually want.
I agree with Raemon that any choice about how comments behaviour will shape what sort of conversations are had. I think this particular choice will encourage the wrong sort of conversations. And it makes LW harder to read.
I’ve already been whingeing at Ben in PMs about the comment-abridging system; Ben, if you’re reading this, feel free to ignore it since I promised I’d shut up about it :-). Anyway, this is just to go on record as really disliking this “feature”, which I think encourages superficial skimming over careful reading, makes it a big pain to engage fully with what others have said (because you have to expand lots of things separately), and just generally feels to me as if it does nothing I can see why I should actually want.
I agree with Raemon that any choice about how comments behaviour will shape what sort of conversations are had. I think this particular choice will encourage the wrong sort of conversations. And it makes LW harder to read.