You’re focusing on negative reinforcement for bad comments. What we need is positive reinforcement for good comments. Because there are so many ways for a comment to be bad, discouraging any given type of bad comment will do effectively nothing to encourage good comments.
“Don’t write bad posts/comments” is not what we want. “Write good posts/comments” is what we want, and confusing the two means nothing will get done.
We need to discourage comments that are not-good. Not just plainly bad. Only… not adding value, but still taking time to read.
The time lost per one comment is trivial, but the time lost by reading thousand comments isn’t. How long does it take LW to produce thousand comments? A few days at most.
This article alone has about 100 comments. Did you get 100 insights from reading them?
You’re focusing on negative reinforcement for bad comments. What we need is positive reinforcement for good comments. Because there are so many ways for a comment to be bad, discouraging any given type of bad comment will do effectively nothing to encourage good comments.
“Don’t write bad posts/comments” is not what we want. “Write good posts/comments” is what we want, and confusing the two means nothing will get done.
We need to discourage comments that are not-good. Not just plainly bad. Only… not adding value, but still taking time to read.
The time lost per one comment is trivial, but the time lost by reading thousand comments isn’t. How long does it take LW to produce thousand comments? A few days at most.
This article alone has about 100 comments. Did you get 100 insights from reading them?
That’s a good observation but for the record, the solution ideas were created by the group, not just me.
If you want to see more positive reinforcement suggestions being considered, why not share a few of yours?