On mobile at least, the “nominate” pop-up has a “submit” button but not a “cancel” button, which is a little inconvenient in cases where I realize I’d like to go back to check some detail about the post that I’m nominating before I nominate it
It would be nice if existing nominations would have a button saying “endorse this nomination” or something, so if I essentially just agree with an existing nomination and don’t have anything to add, I have an easy way to add another vote to it. Making a top-level comment saying just “what Raemon’s nomination said” feels weird, since the social convention is that comments which only endorse another comment are posted as responses to the comment that they are endorsing.
Hmm, upon further reflection – I agree that better UI here would be helpful, but am wary of investing too much time into a UI element that will only be used for a week. (If we do this again next year, I’d definitely want to invest more in UI, but I put sizable probability on ‘if we do it next year the whole process may be different’)
So, for the immediate future: my suggestion would be to just make a nomination that says “What Alice said, [link]”. Especially because you might want your nomination to include “What Alice said [here], and and what Bob said [here]”, and it’s a bit tricky to figure out how to count multiple endorsements.
(This is a bit weird as a commenting experience but I think pretty fine for now – in any case you have my blessing to do a slightly weird commenting thing)
A couple of comments on nomination UI:
On mobile at least, the “nominate” pop-up has a “submit” button but not a “cancel” button, which is a little inconvenient in cases where I realize I’d like to go back to check some detail about the post that I’m nominating before I nominate it
It would be nice if existing nominations would have a button saying “endorse this nomination” or something, so if I essentially just agree with an existing nomination and don’t have anything to add, I have an easy way to add another vote to it. Making a top-level comment saying just “what Raemon’s nomination said” feels weird, since the social convention is that comments which only endorse another comment are posted as responses to the comment that they are endorsing.
Yeah i think something in that space makes sense for endorsing nominations
Hmm, upon further reflection – I agree that better UI here would be helpful, but am wary of investing too much time into a UI element that will only be used for a week. (If we do this again next year, I’d definitely want to invest more in UI, but I put sizable probability on ‘if we do it next year the whole process may be different’)
So, for the immediate future: my suggestion would be to just make a nomination that says “What Alice said, [link]”. Especially because you might want your nomination to include “What Alice said [here], and and what Bob said [here]”, and it’s a bit tricky to figure out how to count multiple endorsements.
(This is a bit weird as a commenting experience but I think pretty fine for now – in any case you have my blessing to do a slightly weird commenting thing)