Proposal: instead of buttons, have a feature to mark a comment you’re making as “minor”, which causes it to be collapsed by default. A stack of 10 little collapsed comments saying “I agree” or “+1” or “SGTM” or “I’ve seen this” might be manageable in a way that uncollapsed comments wouldn’t be. (A feature like this might also encourage shy or uncertain people to comment more?)
Something like this might also encourage people to think of collapsed comments as boring, and not do the “oooh, this comment is collapsed, it must be super interesting and salacious” thing. (If comments at a sufficient depth get collapsed, then you might want them to display differently from comments that are minor or downvoted.)
This could also be useful if we have buttons, but only for a very limited set of reactions, and/or if all or most buttons are anonymous.
Proposal: instead of buttons, have a feature to mark a comment you’re making as “minor”, which causes it to be collapsed by default. A stack of 10 little collapsed comments saying “I agree” or “+1” or “SGTM” or “I’ve seen this” might be manageable in a way that uncollapsed comments wouldn’t be. (A feature like this might also encourage shy or uncertain people to comment more?)
Something like this might also encourage people to think of collapsed comments as boring, and not do the “oooh, this comment is collapsed, it must be super interesting and salacious” thing. (If comments at a sufficient depth get collapsed, then you might want them to display differently from comments that are minor or downvoted.)
This could also be useful if we have buttons, but only for a very limited set of reactions, and/or if all or most buttons are anonymous.