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Annotation is work, and almost nobody want to do it for free, but many people probably want to have it for free. On the internet, a conversational style accompl
by abakker 3y ago
Annotation is work, and almost nobody want to do it for free, but many people probably want to have it for free. On the internet, a conversational style accomplishes this better than a didactic one, and feels less like work.
- xnx 3y ago"Annotation" definitely sounds like work, but people freely leave comments all over the place (Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Hacker News, etc.) for little more than likes, thumbs-up, karma and other "internet points". A system that allowed people to accumulate these points across the web could be really popular.
- abakker 3y agoKinda my point exactly, though. Commenting and discussing is really the bread and butter of social right now. This site included. But, pure note taking never made sense. Companies pursuing annotation missed the fact that Vbulletin, Reddit, discord, etc all solve the same problem in a different way.
- nine_k 3y agoA lot of people want to have their opinion heard! Making that opinion into something that others would read, and not only for lulz, is a different, much harder trick. And, of course, commercial.spam and non-profit vandalism are problems every commenting system must address.
- 20after4 3y agoAnd they are very hard problems, yet unsolved.
- vonnik 3y agoAnnotation is comment, with the flexibility of going much more granular on the object of comment. We are already commenting on ideas and links for free on HN. No reason not to do it with a greater focus on the text.