I can imagine a vote-tagging mechanism that doesn’t lead to interaction, but my intuition is that this requires that the vote-tags be standardized. The moment the tag becomes an actual comment expressing a novel thought by an individual, the usual conversational dynamics allow for interaction with the person addressed. (If the system makes this awkward by requiring it to be implemented as a comment that doesn’t obviously descend from the thing it’s replying to, that won’t stop people from responding to it, it will just make people annoyed by the awkwardness.)
The moment the tag becomes an actual comment expressing a novel thought by an individual, the usual conversational dynamics allow for interaction with the person addressed.
interesting point, but I’m unsure whether that makes it a bad thing.
Anyway, the basis my preference for just letting you highlight some text before you click (above) is that (1) it’s low effort which increases participation (2) it pinpoints the cause of the appreciation/disapproval (3) it’s more flexible than a fixed set of tags.
I can imagine a vote-tagging mechanism that doesn’t lead to interaction, but my intuition is that this requires that the vote-tags be standardized. The moment the tag becomes an actual comment expressing a novel thought by an individual, the usual conversational dynamics allow for interaction with the person addressed. (If the system makes this awkward by requiring it to be implemented as a comment that doesn’t obviously descend from the thing it’s replying to, that won’t stop people from responding to it, it will just make people annoyed by the awkwardness.)
interesting point, but I’m unsure whether that makes it a bad thing.
Anyway, the basis my preference for just letting you highlight some text before you click (above) is that (1) it’s low effort which increases participation (2) it pinpoints the cause of the appreciation/disapproval (3) it’s more flexible than a fixed set of tags.