I sometimes end blog posts with enumerated “discussion questions”. I get vastly higher comment rates and vastly better discussions when I do this. I don’t know why I don’t always do this, actually.
Hypothesis: there’s a lot of “intellectual dark matter” in the form of thoughts people have (or could easily have if prompted) that they don’t share, but would share if nudged.
Claim 4: Explicitly tagging the core claims of a post will make people substantially more likely to respond to these claims.
If you want to discuss this claim, I encourage you to do it as a reply to this comment.
I sometimes end blog posts with enumerated “discussion questions”. I get vastly higher comment rates and vastly better discussions when I do this. I don’t know why I don’t always do this, actually.
Hypothesis: there’s a lot of “intellectual dark matter” in the form of thoughts people have (or could easily have if prompted) that they don’t share, but would share if nudged.
Twitter.
Though I’d probably call it anti-matter, though :-/
At least it decreases the probability that people will start commenting on one claim of the post, and forget that the other are there, too.