Most users don’t read through every single comment. [...] dedicated power-user-comment readers [...]
This is not my use case. I mostly skim based on the author, post title, and votes. I don’t want to miss certain things, but I’m also completely ignoring (not reading) most discussions.
FYI, a feature I expect to build in the not-too-distant future is “subscribe to author”, which might address that particular use case more directly. Curious if that feels like it’s pointing in a direction that’s useful to you.
Not unless the traffic increases severalfold where it would be too much trouble to even skim everything. Skimming the content can turn up interesting things from unfamiliar authors under uninterestingly titled topics, and this can’t be recovered by going subscription-only.
This is not my use case. I mostly skim based on the author, post title, and votes. I don’t want to miss certain things, but I’m also completely ignoring (not reading) most discussions.
FYI, a feature I expect to build in the not-too-distant future is “subscribe to author”, which might address that particular use case more directly. Curious if that feels like it’s pointing in a direction that’s useful to you.
Not unless the traffic increases severalfold where it would be too much trouble to even skim everything. Skimming the content can turn up interesting things from unfamiliar authors under uninterestingly titled topics, and this can’t be recovered by going subscription-only.