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I don't really understand the authors frustration. What's wrong with mentioning a friend in a comment or post so they'll see it?
by schrodinger 12y ago
I don't really understand the authors frustration. What's wrong with mentioning a friend in a comment or post so they'll see it?
- michaelmior 12y agoI can't think of an instance where I've been annoyed that a friend has mentioned me in a comment. I'd prefer that to explicit sharing via some other mechanism anyway if they want to involve me in the discussion.
- markbao 12y agoIn my opinion, it buries the actual discussion on the post in question under a stream of name-mentions. Imagine if people on HN didn't email an article link to someone, but just @mentioned their name as a comment. With a ranking system like HN's, established comments would rise, but there would still be a ton of crud making it harder to, say, see new comments.
- callil 12y agoI think you're right and it just demonstrates a lack of good intuitive UX around content sharing. Instagram is especially bad in this regard, popular posts are just polluted with @ mentions.
- christianmann 12y agoThe post is referring to comments on popular posts (e.g. everything from IFLScience) that only contain someone's name in a comment.
- chrismcb 12y agoThe thing that is annoying, you see a post, that you are interested in. It has 36 comments. You open the comments to read what people have to say, then you have to sit there scrolling through a list of names. In the end there is a half dozen comments. Surely there has to be a better way to tell your friend about the post.