one of us since 10:58 PM on 01.31.2012


You know how comment replies in here will keep indenting until they become completely unreadable?

I like to think of that as someone slowly closing the door between two people arguing until just their lips are sticking out between a crack as they keep trying to shout things at each other. I mean, sometimes it's not an argument taking place, but let's be honest, usually it is.

I guess they'll fix it at some point. Or they intend to? I kinda think they don't need to lol.


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in reply to @DrMel's post:

I've posted about this before but I actually think this UI issue means people ONLY have arguments. Because people don't want to have a nice conversation where they slowly can no longer read the posts anymore, but people who are very angry will take the time to try to read that one letter per line comment and keep replying.

The vast majority of extremely deep comment threads I've seen on here have been arguments. It's hard to have more than a one or two reply conversation on here.

Yeah, honestly the comments just in need of improvement. Liking a comment, even privately as we do with posts, should be a thing as well. They want to encourage actual conversation and not just have people focus on numbers? Fine. The comments don't let us do either lol

This has been a sticking point for me since the early days. I'm largely on social media to have conversations not just post to an audience. Even when I'm posting to an audience I generally hope it leads to conversation (unless it's something where I'm just super mad about something and don't wanna hear it lol, it happens). Cohost's design makes that very hard, to the point where most of the time when I see see double digit comments on a post it's because a fight broke out. It's actually not often I see more than a few comments on posts, even skimming profiles of prominent users (just so it's not a bias of what tags I'm following). Conversations just don't seem to be happening often, and often if they do it's less conversation more fighting. It feels more like a platform for one sided communication where you're blasting posts out to an audience.