Do you guys like the way the conversation is presented in a topic? It is kind of similar to a regular forum where the latest are at the bottom. The downside is that replies may be easily lost that way, buried by new replies.
There’s something about Facebook Comments conversation that makes sense. Sometimes there’s a good comment and inside it develops a dialog that doesn’t protrude to other conversations, and it’s an easily collapsible thread if you are not interested.
Also new comments are shown above the old ones, and you can chose to view the most liked comments.
To me, conversations or discussions in philosophy forum are context dependent. It should be. To respond in good faith, we need to at least read the OP and succeeding responses. If one is responding to the latest comment, one should at least read the comments that came before it.
Punchlines are fun, disregarding what’s already been said and what’s already been covered. But they should be used sparingly.
So, to me, this format of old comments on top works. Incidentally, this is how texts messages are presented. Also, if texting is used for receiving authentication codes, latest codes are presented below old codes.
So why old comments on top and latest comments at the bottom? It follows the human behavior on handling transcripts. Old school.
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Let’s say you wrote a post about a topic that’s very important to you. You want everyone to focus on the topic right? But what if two people end up going on and on about a tangential point(to them it might be interesting and important), do you want their conversation to keep dirtying the feed or do you want to just collapse their conversation and be focused on the other replies?