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  • Right, so you’ve already agreed on the first two points.

    I see some merit to the limiting top level comments to the article nobody reads anyway…, but expecting everyone to either go on a hate or love it comment parade feels like something that would naturally happen in the comments anyway.

    I’d err to the side of already giving comments free fodder for discussion just to boost engagement. OP is essentially preempting what’s already going to be a comment anyway. Hence my emphasis on is there some sort of social trick that leads credence to it? Or is that simply a failure on the readers part. It’s the latter to me.

    You’re also expecting that multiple of the same comments at top level aren’t already a thing lol. Or that OP isn’t going to bring their argument to multiple levels anyway, which they will if they’re active on their posts and not just top level spamming.


  • Agreed. And not including post body information beyond anything except the article has always been a strictly reddit based thing.

    This is Lemmy and Federated so I’m against that hard.

    There really should be no point in having to post a second comment rather than OP utilizing the space already built into post submissions either to save comment space/bandwith or prime discussion.

    I see no real need why they need to be separated. The difference is negligible to my browsing experience. It does end up making OP need to do one more post though.

    If we didn’t want OP to have an opinion on something posted, then what’s the difference between simply not letting them comment then? Is there some psychological trick that’s make their words at the top of the page more credible just because they posted a bogus or trusted source? Does that distinction really need to be made or are users just not used to it due to reddiquette?

    I think it’s the latter, and antiquated.