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I think the point is that most people have extremely-low-to-zero motivation to spend time actually thinking about that question, so they pick whatever makes the
by frereubu 3y ago
I think the point is that most people have extremely-low-to-zero motivation to spend time actually thinking about that question, so they pick whatever makes the request go away. I know I'm like that, exemplified by the fact that if the question is mandatory, and I pick something which triggers an extra text field for more information, I am much more like to try and change the intial option to something that doesn't require the extra input rather than having to think about what to write.
- 22289d 3y agoone day i will figure out how to respond to a minor detail, without making people think i'm addressing the main point.
- fluoridation 3y agoHave you tried prepending "just a minor note to add to what you said:"?
- bee_rider 3y agoI wonder if this is a problem with the branching structure of these sorts of discussion boards? Every comment is in some sense the start of a new conversation… it sometimes feels like there’s a tendency to want to grow a thread to meet that “whole conversation” measure. Maybe the issue is that little details don’t make it, so context gets pulled from the main thread? It would be interesting is the site had the ability to make linear threads coming out of a comment, or start whole new branches. Then each branch could have an assorted “random asides” spot or something.