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Flat comments ensure a narrative thread.
by DannoHung 15y ago
Flat comments ensure a narrative thread.
- Uhhrrr 15y agoAll too often they result in no thread whatsoever.
- Groxx 15y agoLike Twitter encourages? Or maybe you're referring to YouTube comments.
- DannoHung 15y agoOkay, Twitter is more like a disassociated bag of nodes in a partially connected non-directional graph where half the edges don't connect to the node they're intended to connect to. YouTube is a pack of raving howler monkeys with the occasional howler monkey researcher at the periphery. And, in fact, YouTube used to have threads, but they were still threads full of howler monkeys. I'm talking more like your classic bulletin boards producing high quality content, like MetaFilter, Something Awful, and the like.
- Groxx 15y agoWe agree on the sites, but I don't see what the conversation being flat has to do with it. Reddit is famous for the AMA threads, those are threaded.
- DannoHung 15y agoYeah, but try reading an AMA after it's been finished. It is really hard to find everything from the Askee. I'm not intrinsically opposed to threads, but I'm not sure they're super beneficial outside of technical contexts or in an environment where people are expected to break a larger conversation off into it's own little set of discussions to keep the high level conversation easy to understand.
- sofal 15y agoNarrative threads ensure a low signal/noise ratio and stifle natural discussion tangents.
- Joakal 15y agoI think it encourages a very high signal/noise ratio with the right moderation. eg whirlpool.net.au. Posters are encouraged to make their own threads, not go offtopic, etc.