Sometimes I think to myself something along these lines:
I could read this post/comment in detail and respond to it, but I expect that others won’t put much effort into the discussion and it will fizzle out, and so it isn’t worth it for me to put the effort in in the first place.
This presents a sort of coordination problem, and one that would be reasonably easy to solve with some sort of assurance contract-like functionality.
There’s a lot to say about whether or not such a thing is worth pursuing, but in short, it seems like trying it out as an experiment would be pretty high-upside and low-cost to try, in such a way that I’m decently confident would be worthwhile.
I … don’t think that line of thinking almost ever applies to me. If the topic interests me and/or there’s something about the post that piques my desire to discuss, it almost always turns out that there are others with similar willingness. At the very least, the OP usually engages to some extent.
There are very few, and perhaps zero, cases where crafting or even evaluating an existing contract is less effort than just reading and responding AND I see enough potential to expend the contract effort but not the read/reply effort.
In addition, the contract doesn’t get me out of the effort to read/respond, it just gives reason to believe that others will do so as well. It’s overall strictly more effort than just taking the risk sometimes.
Sometimes I think to myself something along these lines:
This presents a sort of coordination problem, and one that would be reasonably easy to solve with some sort of assurance contract-like functionality.
There’s a lot to say about whether or not such a thing is worth pursuing, but in short, it seems like trying it out as an experiment would be pretty high-upside and low-cost to try, in such a way that I’m decently confident would be worthwhile.
I … don’t think that line of thinking almost ever applies to me. If the topic interests me and/or there’s something about the post that piques my desire to discuss, it almost always turns out that there are others with similar willingness. At the very least, the OP usually engages to some extent.
There are very few, and perhaps zero, cases where crafting or even evaluating an existing contract is less effort than just reading and responding AND I see enough potential to expend the contract effort but not the read/reply effort.
In addition, the contract doesn’t get me out of the effort to read/respond, it just gives reason to believe that others will do so as well. It’s overall strictly more effort than just taking the risk sometimes.