A different thing are conversation back and forths: each comment is in a new branch of the comment tree.
WTH are you trying to say?
At a wild guess, that you may upvote a comment that you support – but there’s a second part that you wouldn’t agree with. Or that people should split up their comments so that people can upvote/downvote individual parts?
Thank you. Take your 0.667 of an upvote.
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I think OP is referring to comment where multiple talking points are made, but you can’t selectively apply your upvote/downvote to specific parts of the comment. You either upvote it all, or downvote it all.
So if I start talking about how pineapple is ok on a pizza, a downvote for this take also means you downvote how I’m trying to clarify OP’s message.
Down with pineapple, 0.5 upvote.
Yes. This is what I mean.
I hope I made it clearer by editing the post. Let me know if it’s still not clear :)
If you find yourself typing a long comment that might have contradictions or presents several options, you should consider shortening it so that it only contains the most important point. Save the rest for follow up conversations. This makes a better conversation for several reasons besides voting.
Interesting. What makes you say that?
Yes exactly. If anyone cares enough about the subject they’ll ask you to tell more.
It’s a waste of your own time to type out everything you know in advance if no one cares or everyone already knows.
Fair enough. I can see how I could save myself time and effort. However, I’ve read many long comments in the past that are very interesting. And, considering the 90-9-1 rule, I suppose this happens to other people too.
We generally take for granted “1 comment per user per comment level”
We do?
You would reply twice to the same comment, generally
Well yeah it’s not like
You may be an exception, posting each part of what you wish to say in a different comment. But what I see the vast majority of the time is one comment per user per comment level.
Just in case, I do not mean that, in a post, users don’t reply to comments more than once. In each ‘branch’ of the comment tree, it’s more likely to see edits than new comments.
You may be an exception, posting each part of what you wish to say in a different comment.
I’m not and I have no idea what you’re talking about, since you edited the thread and I have no recollection of what it stated originally.
