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Just out of curiosity, would this reply — which is now deeply nested — be considered spamming if you had your way? How about your subsequent reply to this one?

• erichocean 14y ago
  It would depend on your (and my) behavior everywhere, not just in this particular comment thread. If you (or I) had a history of making replies to (almost) everyone who replies to you (or I), then yeah, I would want the system to curb your (or my) instinct to reply to everything with some kind of waiting period, and I'd want that to kick in very, very early. My sense is that the people that do this aren't very self-aware (i.e. have poor social skills), and as a result, it's not really possible to convince them to stop making things bad for everyone -- since they don't know, and don't think, they are. An impartial filter would eliminate the drama and achieve the desired result without having to try and change their behavior, or publicly shaming them (as other commenters have suggested).
  • DanBC 14y ago
    > My sense is that the people that do this aren't very self-aware (i.e. have poor social skills), and as a result, it's not really possible to convince them to stop making things bad for everyone -- since they don't know, and don't think, they are. An interesting interface experiment might be to apply a color filter (or somesuch) to these users, so that they become aware that their posts are deemed by an algorithm to be sub-optimal. Seeing your posts start at a healthy color, and then gradually dip down into an unhealthy red might train people to stop replying everywhere?