Yep, this seems doable, we’re working on it. Not currently a priority (lately it’s been tagging for most of the team, and the book for me). I think it’s plausibly the next priority.
GDoc-Like Comments for Public Review/Critique
My main issue is the visual clutter and breaking up a person’s narrative flow. I think the reading experience of this post is substantially impeded by the regular comments saying “Nope, different thing” which often demotivates continuing reading the main argument, and I wouldn’t want to force that onto writers’ posts.
Some options that come to mind: authors choosing to confirm the comments appearing inline (and otherwise they just appear in the normal comment section); authors choosing a small number of users who can comment inline; things only appearing inline if they reach a karma threshold; things only appearing inline after you’ve already read the post once (e.g. a button at the end of the post to turn the comments inline). I don’t expect any of these ideas to work. Overall I’ve not played around with it yet, will probably have better ideas later.
Argument Diagramming
I like your concrete suggestions, I feel more pessimistic about something like ‘automatically generated diagrams’, they reliably go very poorly.
Post Endorsement
Something about negotiating lots of public endorsements sounds very gossipy to me in a way that I could imagine being a big mess. I do quite like the idea that when people criticise a post and the critique gets high karma, the people who upvoted (or strong upvoted) the initial post can get a notification. In general “get a notification for substantial discussion of a post I liked” sounds like a notification I’d like to get.
GDoc-Like Comments For Drafts
Yep, this seems doable, we’re working on it. Not currently a priority (lately it’s been tagging for most of the team, and the book for me). I think it’s plausibly the next priority.
GDoc-Like Comments for Public Review/Critique
My main issue is the visual clutter and breaking up a person’s narrative flow. I think the reading experience of this post is substantially impeded by the regular comments saying “Nope, different thing” which often demotivates continuing reading the main argument, and I wouldn’t want to force that onto writers’ posts.
Some options that come to mind: authors choosing to confirm the comments appearing inline (and otherwise they just appear in the normal comment section); authors choosing a small number of users who can comment inline; things only appearing inline if they reach a karma threshold; things only appearing inline after you’ve already read the post once (e.g. a button at the end of the post to turn the comments inline). I don’t expect any of these ideas to work. Overall I’ve not played around with it yet, will probably have better ideas later.
Argument Diagramming
I like your concrete suggestions, I feel more pessimistic about something like ‘automatically generated diagrams’, they reliably go very poorly.
Post Endorsement
Something about negotiating lots of public endorsements sounds very gossipy to me in a way that I could imagine being a big mess. I do quite like the idea that when people criticise a post and the critique gets high karma, the people who upvoted (or strong upvoted) the initial post can get a notification. In general “get a notification for substantial discussion of a post I liked” sounds like a notification I’d like to get.