What if authors of the nitpicking comments had an option to label them as “nitpicking”, which would even result in the comment being displayed with smaller font? (And the whole subthread below the “nitpicking” comment would automatically be labeled “nitpicking” by the system.) Maybe that would introduce some extra self-awareness to the debate.
More generally, support many different labels, such as “nitpicking” or “suggestion / new idea” or “expression of gratitude” or whatever… and have them visually represented by e.g. colored frame around the comment. (For example, this comment would be classified as “suggestion”.) In a way that makes it for System 1 easy to recognize it, so as a reader you can decide to e.g. skip all the nitpicking comments, or all the social comments.
Would be nice to have a more general solution in the form of a robust tagging system + ways for a user to filter (or apply colour/flair/decorations) to comments based on tags.
What if authors of the nitpicking comments had an option to label them as “nitpicking”, which would even result in the comment being displayed with smaller font? (And the whole subthread below the “nitpicking” comment would automatically be labeled “nitpicking” by the system.) Maybe that would introduce some extra self-awareness to the debate.
More generally, support many different labels, such as “nitpicking” or “suggestion / new idea” or “expression of gratitude” or whatever… and have them visually represented by e.g. colored frame around the comment. (For example, this comment would be classified as “suggestion”.) In a way that makes it for System 1 easy to recognize it, so as a reader you can decide to e.g. skip all the nitpicking comments, or all the social comments.
When I nitpick, I sometimes enclose my entire comment in parentheses, and/or explicitly write “nitpick”, as a manual approach to this.
Would be nice to have a more general solution in the form of a robust tagging system + ways for a user to filter (or apply colour/flair/decorations) to comments based on tags.