It’s use was in the bottom third of reacts, and my honest recollection is that it never actually caused elaborating to happen, so I felt comfortable removing it. I have been exploring design space for a react that is more like “I would be interested to read more about this from you!” which feels a bit less demanding and more like something good will happen to the person if they write another comment or even a post on it, which I would like to add if I can find a good design for it (both a good visual image and a good short name).
Interesting, I hadn’t conceived that “nitpick” might be used that way. I don’t know if changing it to “This is a nitpick” would actually solve the problem (perhaps it would be read self-referentially). Perhaps I’ll think of a better idea tomorrow, but if not I’ll wait to see if it actually gets misused.
I think “Elaborate” would be more useful (i.e., more likely to actually induce an elaboration on the point being reacted at) if its corresponding notification was grouped not with karma updates and other reacts (which people get notified about in a batch, daily, weekly, etc.), but rather with the normal notifs like “so-and-so replied to your comment/post” or “you received a message from so-and-so”. (Probably the same for the new “Let’s make a bet!” react.)
But this would most likely require doing something somewhat inelegant and complicated to the codebase, so it may not be worth it, atm at least.
I also feel a bit sad about “Elaborate?” being gone, sometimes someone makes an interesting side-statement and I want to hear more from them about that, which is when I use the react. But this is a weak expression of longing.
It’s use was in the bottom third of reacts, and my honest recollection is that it never actually caused elaborating to happen, so I felt comfortable removing it. I have been exploring design space for a react that is more like “I would be interested to read more about this from you!” which feels a bit less demanding and more like something good will happen to the person if they write another comment or even a post on it, which I would like to add if I can find a good design for it (both a good visual image and a good short name).
Interesting, I hadn’t conceived that “nitpick” might be used that way. I don’t know if changing it to “This is a nitpick” would actually solve the problem (perhaps it would be read self-referentially). Perhaps I’ll think of a better idea tomorrow, but if not I’ll wait to see if it actually gets misused.
Epistemic status: Very sleepy while I write this.
I think “Elaborate” would be more useful (i.e., more likely to actually induce an elaboration on the point being reacted at) if its corresponding notification was grouped not with karma updates and other reacts (which people get notified about in a batch, daily, weekly, etc.), but rather with the normal notifs like “so-and-so replied to your comment/post” or “you received a message from so-and-so”. (Probably the same for the new “Let’s make a bet!” react.)
But this would most likely require doing something somewhat inelegant and complicated to the codebase, so it may not be worth it, atm at least.
It might also work better if it’s use was rate limited, so that it was actually a costly signal.
I guess. But I would think the bigger issue is that people don’t notice.
I also feel a bit sad about “Elaborate?” being gone, sometimes someone makes an interesting side-statement and I want to hear more from them about that, which is when I use the react. But this is a weak expression of longing.