Gregory's Server@danie10 @Cocohead @Gargron Interestingly, I always felt that this "Draw all discussion in" was a weakness, not a strength. It made it too easy to hijack a conversation. I'd see people talking about important issues, personal problems, whatever, and comment number 12 is a crowd-pleasing sidetrack and suddenly the important issue is abandoned and the original discussion is derailed.
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  @danie10 yeah. I mean i don't mean to assert that there's a single correct answer, one true way or anything, all my arguments here are just meant as data points to help steer the final decision. I don't know that quoting is truly that valuable, just that I see a lot of flawed reasoning in some of the arguments against it. It might still be bad regardless. |
@danie10 @Cocohead @Gargron I was taught early on, in my Twitter days, that if my comment no a post doesn't add directly to the original conversation, then it's simply good manners to QT instead. I can have my discussion, and OP can see it, but in a way that doesn't silence OP by robbing them of their audience.