Vladimir, I understand that you’re a respected researcher, but if you keep voting down my comments without explaining why you disagree with me, I’m going to stop talking to you. It doesn’t matter how right you are if you never teach me anything.
If you would like me to stop talking to you, feel free to say so outright, and I will do so, without any hard feelings.
(I didn’t downvote the grandparent, and didn’t even see it downvoted. Your comment is still on my “to reply” list, so when it doesn’t feel like work I might eventually reply (the basic argument is related to “hidden complexity of wishes” and preference is thorough). Also note that I don’t receive a notification when you reply to your own comment, I only saw this because I’m subscribed to wedrifid’s comments.)
We can subscribe to comments? Is this via RSS? And can we do it in bulk? (I suppose that would mean creating many subscriptions and grouping them in the reader.)
What I would like is to be able to subscribe to a feed of “comments that have been upvoted by people who usually upvote the comments that I like and downvote the comments that I dislike”.
Via RSS, I’m subscribed to comments by about 20 people (grouped in a Google Reader folder), which is usually enough to point me to whatever interesting discussions are going on, but doesn’t require looking through tons of relatively low-signal comments in the global comments stream. It’s a good solution, you won’t be able to arrange a similar quality of comment selection automatically.
Vladimir, I understand that you’re a respected researcher, but if you keep voting down my comments without explaining why you disagree with me, I’m going to stop talking to you. It doesn’t matter how right you are if you never teach me anything.
If you would like me to stop talking to you, feel free to say so outright, and I will do so, without any hard feelings.
(I didn’t downvote the grandparent, and didn’t even see it downvoted. Your comment is still on my “to reply” list, so when it doesn’t feel like work I might eventually reply (the basic argument is related to “hidden complexity of wishes” and preference is thorough). Also note that I don’t receive a notification when you reply to your own comment, I only saw this because I’m subscribed to wedrifid’s comments.)
All right, I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
We can subscribe to comments? Is this via RSS? And can we do it in bulk? (I suppose that would mean creating many subscriptions and grouping them in the reader.)
What I would like is to be able to subscribe to a feed of “comments that have been upvoted by people who usually upvote the comments that I like and downvote the comments that I dislike”.
Via RSS, I’m subscribed to comments by about 20 people (grouped in a Google Reader folder), which is usually enough to point me to whatever interesting discussions are going on, but doesn’t require looking through tons of relatively low-signal comments in the global comments stream. It’s a good solution, you won’t be able to arrange a similar quality of comment selection automatically.
(I upvoted the grandparent. It seems to ask relevant questions and give clear reasons for asking them.)