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The SNR goes way, way, way down with live chat. The brilliant people who take time to write long, well thought out comments, are not typically the same people
by silisili 4y ago
The SNR goes way, way, way down with live chat. The brilliant people who take time to write long, well thought out comments, are not typically the same people to have the free time to sit in a chatroom all day.
Personal opinion: Without many tools to promote and demote messages, I'd argue group chat is one of the least valuable forms of communication, if your goal is to read something thoughtful or educational.
- isthisthingon99 4y agoLong comments are usually not that great.
- v3ss0n 4y agoIt's interface problem. Keeping depths of thread to two levels would be good enough
- isthisthingon99 4y agoNah, it's more like if your idea can't be distilled down to a few sentences, it's probably not well thought out. A lot of people here write a lot of garbage.
- v3ss0n 4y agoThere are a lot of cases long explanation is necessary. There are many greats comments that are way in depth and breath here than paid articles, and I never seen that in other chat based communities like discord, or slack( a lot worse). There may be garbage but this is public forum anyways, still garbage here is a lot better than top gold post of reddit.
- 082349872349872 4y agoI would suggest OP build a new link aggregator with live chat, if that's what they want. For me, HN already has the attention span of a goldfish; making it more synchronous would not be making it better.