Sometimes the medium itself is thought-terminating, like IRC and all its offspring (including Matrix): - It's basically impossible to have more than one produc

Sometimes the medium itself is thought-terminating, like IRC and all its offspring (including Matrix): - It's basically impossible to have more than one productive discussion going at any time. - There's no threading (or threading is a mostly half-baked ignored niche feature, like in Matrix), so 90% of answers are followed by everybody else just guessing which comment they answered. - You need to seize the moment to keep the other participants engaged and to avoid confusing readers (see above), so quick answers rather than thoughtful ones are more likely to get a follow-up.