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The difficulty in having conversations reduces the tendency for people to get caught up in the cycle of reactive response. Were to introduce response notificati
by kelseyfrog 4y ago
The difficulty in having conversations reduces the tendency for people to get caught up in the cycle of reactive response. Were to introduce response notification, the engagement metrics would rise, but so would the number of fights. Given that HN isn't incentivized to increase engagement to sell ads, posing such an impediment isn't clearly tied to a dollar valued opportunity cost and therefore easier to swallow.
- krapp 4y ago>The difficulty in having conversations reduces the tendency for people to get caught up in the cycle of reactive response. The increasingly frequent multi-thousand comment long garbage fire political threads disagree with you.
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- kelseyfrog 4y agoRight, I'm comparing the design effects of different social media platforms, while you're looking at HN over time. We're not really talking about the same things.
- krapp 4y agoI think we are talking about the same things. I'm claiming the design being discussed doesn't have the effect you believe it does, with the growth of contentious threads being evidence to the contrary.
- mountainriver 4y agoIf you want a dumpster fire you can head to Reddit. I greatly prefer what HN does to reduce that
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThis is like me saying that the cost of living has certain geographical causes and you saying that's not true because housing prices are rising in Miami. Are living related and housing price changes related? Sure, but that's not how one would dispell a statement about the former.
- Kaibeezy 4y agoI’ve had conversations cut off by the site when there’s too much back-and-forth between me and one other person. Is that still in force?
- dibt 4y agoYes. Happened to me the other day.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoWhen this happens, you can still reply by clicking the timestamp above the post. The reply button will also appear after a while, the system just wants you to slow down.
- mackrevinack 4y agoi wonder if 'slow' notifications might be a good sweet spot. instead of notifying you about a reply instantly it could send a summary of replies once or twice a day
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI feel like the `threads` page already serves this function though, even if not in quite the same way.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoAnecdotally yes. The increased use of the threads page correlates to my descent into long threaded back-and-forths.