So, this is a fairly low-effort response to something that took you time. I appreciate the time spent, but if my options are to say nothing or to put in equal time, I’m pretty much just going to move on.
I’d rather not be outraged on someone else’s behalf. I don’t know how Raemon takes the fact that two highly-voted comments were brief and not deeply engaging, especially as there was quite a bit of actual good discussion. It seems a fine tradeoff to me, and “ignore the trolls” has been important advice since long before the Web and blogging was around. I’m also more hurt and concerned about silence than about low-value speech (in general; I’m not sure if it applies to comments on long/involved LW posts).
More importantly, authors who ARE hurt by these asymmetric interactions have some options. Start with lower-effort posts, to get a sense of how people react to the headline and thesis statement. Maybe make two posts, one with the overall concept and one with a lot of depth—ruthlessly moderate the one you only want high-effort responses on. maybe start a comment thread specific to initial reactions, and ask posters to avoid lightweight top-level comments.
So, this is a fairly low-effort response to something that took you time. I appreciate the time spent, but if my options are to say nothing or to put in equal time, I’m pretty much just going to move on.
I’d rather not be outraged on someone else’s behalf. I don’t know how Raemon takes the fact that two highly-voted comments were brief and not deeply engaging, especially as there was quite a bit of actual good discussion. It seems a fine tradeoff to me, and “ignore the trolls” has been important advice since long before the Web and blogging was around. I’m also more hurt and concerned about silence than about low-value speech (in general; I’m not sure if it applies to comments on long/involved LW posts).
More importantly, authors who ARE hurt by these asymmetric interactions have some options. Start with lower-effort posts, to get a sense of how people react to the headline and thesis statement. Maybe make two posts, one with the overall concept and one with a lot of depth—ruthlessly moderate the one you only want high-effort responses on. maybe start a comment thread specific to initial reactions, and ask posters to avoid lightweight top-level comments.
Shortform seems like a great way to do this.