Do the readers not want to see low quality comments, or is it more so the authors who don’t want to see them? And do the readers care primarily about the comments, or more so about the posts? The answer is probably “both” to both questions. Or at least, there are subsets of both groups that care about each.
There is also another important party, which I think people like Said, Zack M Davis, me, (maybe?) Viliam, etc. belong to, which is “commenters/authors concerned with the degradation of epistemic standards” caused by happy death spirals over applause lights, semantic stopsigns, postrationalist woo, etc.
Do the readers not want to see low quality comments, or is it more so the authors who don’t want to see them? And do the readers care primarily about the comments, or more so about the posts? The answer is probably “both” to both questions. Or at least, there are subsets of both groups that care about each.
There is also another important party, which I think people like Said, Zack M Davis, me, (maybe?) Viliam, etc. belong to, which is “commenters/authors concerned with the degradation of epistemic standards” caused by happy death spirals over applause lights, semantic stopsigns, postrationalist woo, etc.