I very strongly endorse the point that it seems bad that someone can make bad claims in a post, which are then refuted in comments which only get read by people who get all the way to the bottom and read comments. To me the obvious (wrong) solution is to let people make inline comments. If nothing else, having a good way within comments to point to what part of the post you want to address feels like a strict win, and given that we already have pingbacks I think letting sufficiently good comments exist alongside the post would also be good. This could also be the kind of thing that a poster can enable or disable, and that a reader can toggle visibility on.
You can link to comments, so that is an easy technical solution. As ever , it’s mainly a cultural problem: if good quality criticism were upvoted, it would appear at the top of the comments anyway, and bit be buried.
You can link to comments, so that is an easy technical solution. As ever , it’s mainly a cultural problem: if good quality criticism were upvoted, it would appear at the top of the comments anyway, and bit be buried.