FWIW I'm not a big fan of the comments below posts just linking all other context. Somehow those just feel like clutter and I wish there would be a way for me to only see those on demand.
Definitely agree with this. You get excited about there being actual discussion going on... and it ends up just being a link to some other thread :/
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Yeah, the way how I used to scan through the list of posts was also based on the number of comments, because we have a lot of smart folks here and so there's often a lot of signal in the comments.
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I guess we can rate limit commenting by making it more expensive to comment in quick succession at the same depth?
A lot of the ones I'm seeing are like 5 comments from the same user(s). I personally wouldn't mind one comment with context but 5-10 without competing comments feels really noisy.
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Yeah, just brainstorming, but maybe limit to one comment per person on top level (and way more expensive to add another...).
Also this may be "me" problem, so I wonder how does the wider community feel about it.
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Yeah this could work.
I mean we're at minimum of N=2 so I'm just going to assume it's a bigger problem 😅
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This thread is a good example of one with a lot of noise: #10908
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Can you point to an example of this?
I think I know what you mean, and I suspect the solution is a "related"/"more like this" accordion below each post.
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