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• munificent 8y ago
  I've often wondered how much more productive GitHub discussion threads would be if you could set them to be rate-limited: Each user can only comment X times per day and each comment may only have up to Y characters of text. Right now, it's too easy for people to blast out unedited words and consume the attention of readers. If they had an attention budget, maybe they would spend it more wisely.
  • marcus_holmes 8y ago
    You'd have to stop people editing their comments, too. Or people end up responding to subsequent comments by editing previous comments and doing the whole: "On subject foo:.... (insert four paragraphs of blather here) On subject bar: .... (more blather) In response to your point .... (yada yada)" thing, and it gets even more unreadable. I find any serious, meaningful creative discussion almost impossible without proper threads. I have this same problem in Slack, where interesting, significant, discussions sit in a thread spawned from some innocuous comment and there's no way of highlighting it to say "this is significant. I hate to say it, but old-school, early-internet forums did solve this problem really well.