I just had a related idea. Let people mark their own comments as highbrow, lowbrow, or NSFW. Highbrow if it’s a serious comment, lowbrow if it’s a bad pun. And then there could be related viewing options. This way, people who want to relax wouldn’t be told that they’re bad and stupid, but those who came here on business wouldn’t have to see it.
This can’t work organically, generation of content has to be performed in the mode of presentation sufficiently compatible with the mode of consumption. Taking out a portion of comments from a discussion raptures it, making it too tarnished to hold together. It takes human intelligence to selectively abbreviate a narrative, an automatic system that just takes track of some kind of threshold is incapable of doing that gracefully. Removing offensive outliers works, but little else. See also this comment, made before it was made possible to easily see comments’ context.
Even if it were a good idea to split the community like that, what are we to do with people who consistently post middlebrow posts, like pointed jokes, or philosophy interspersed with anime references?
I just had a related idea. Let people mark their own comments as highbrow, lowbrow, or NSFW. Highbrow if it’s a serious comment, lowbrow if it’s a bad pun. And then there could be related viewing options. This way, people who want to relax wouldn’t be told that they’re bad and stupid, but those who came here on business wouldn’t have to see it.
This can’t work organically, generation of content has to be performed in the mode of presentation sufficiently compatible with the mode of consumption. Taking out a portion of comments from a discussion raptures it, making it too tarnished to hold together. It takes human intelligence to selectively abbreviate a narrative, an automatic system that just takes track of some kind of threshold is incapable of doing that gracefully. Removing offensive outliers works, but little else. See also this comment, made before it was made possible to easily see comments’ context.
The requested feature list for this site’s software is now huge—we’re going to need a lot more coders if we’re to make such progress.
Even if it were a good idea to split the community like that, what are we to do with people who consistently post middlebrow posts, like pointed jokes, or philosophy interspersed with anime references?