I love the concept behind this new debate feature.
Feedback on the current implementation:
When someone replies to a section, a new comment is spawned in the comments section which doesn’t display the original section by default (it’s collapsed and hidden as if it was a response to a deleted comment), so it looks like a reply to nothing.
Also, once unhidden and uncollapsed, this original replied-to section then appears as a comment by the original debate participant, including the ability to upvote and downvote their single paragraph, which was something habryka mentioned in his recent podcast as explicitly being something he didn’t want: “So one of the things that I think would be the key difference, at least in my current model of this, is that the individual responses cannot be voted on.”
Also, the comment counter, as in “8 comments, sorted by top scoring”, doesn’t include these newly-spawned comments. I.e. at the time I write this comment, the post says it has 8 comments, but it actually has 8 comments plus two hidden pseudo-comments by the debate participants.
If the debates get longer, I’d love a Headings feature so we get an automatic table of contents and the ability to easily navigate to a specific section of the debate.
Thanks, appreciate the feedback! The voting thing is a great catch, and indeed the current experience with expanding parent comments isn’t ideal and needs some thinking.
I love the concept behind this new debate feature.
Feedback on the current implementation:
When someone replies to a section, a new comment is spawned in the comments section which doesn’t display the original section by default (it’s collapsed and hidden as if it was a response to a deleted comment), so it looks like a reply to nothing.
Also, once unhidden and uncollapsed, this original replied-to section then appears as a comment by the original debate participant, including the ability to upvote and downvote their single paragraph, which was something habryka mentioned in his recent podcast as explicitly being something he didn’t want: “So one of the things that I think would be the key difference, at least in my current model of this, is that the individual responses cannot be voted on.”
Also, the comment counter, as in “8 comments, sorted by top scoring”, doesn’t include these newly-spawned comments. I.e. at the time I write this comment, the post says it has 8 comments, but it actually has 8 comments plus two hidden pseudo-comments by the debate participants.
If the debates get longer, I’d love a Headings feature so we get an automatic table of contents and the ability to easily navigate to a specific section of the debate.
Thanks, appreciate the feedback! The voting thing is a great catch, and indeed the current experience with expanding parent comments isn’t ideal and needs some thinking.