The cost to use it is, on the face of it, at most a couple of mouse clicks. How could that be higher than the benefit of letting every reader know why the conversation ended? Perhaps I’m leaving out some hidden costs here, in which case, what do you think they are?
As for the cost to implement, I volunteer to code the feature myself, if I can get a commitment that it will be accepted (and if someone more qualified/familiar with the codebase doesn’t volunteer).
When I read a comment. I may have a vague sense of not-worth-more-time-ness. So I don’t respond.
I expect actually resolving that sense into a concrete reason to be effortful. It seems like it’d be worth it to do in many cases, but not always.
A version of this feature that sounds more likely to succeed to me, would be if it takes a mouse-click to request a reason for end of argument. I’d expect that to dramatically cut down on the number of times I’d have to resolve a vague sense into a concrete reason.
There’s the cost to implement it and the cost to use it, and neither is trivial. A fine idea for fans to try, but not ready as a norm for non-fans.
The cost to use it is, on the face of it, at most a couple of mouse clicks. How could that be higher than the benefit of letting every reader know why the conversation ended? Perhaps I’m leaving out some hidden costs here, in which case, what do you think they are?
As for the cost to implement, I volunteer to code the feature myself, if I can get a commitment that it will be accepted (and if someone more qualified/familiar with the codebase doesn’t volunteer).
When I read a comment. I may have a vague sense of not-worth-more-time-ness. So I don’t respond.
I expect actually resolving that sense into a concrete reason to be effortful. It seems like it’d be worth it to do in many cases, but not always.
A version of this feature that sounds more likely to succeed to me, would be if it takes a mouse-click to request a reason for end of argument. I’d expect that to dramatically cut down on the number of times I’d have to resolve a vague sense into a concrete reason.