the quality jump from VCR to DVD is pretty much equivalent to the jump from DVD to 1080p if you have any display of 50" or bigger and capable of a full 1080p signal. On my 50" plasma I can see tons of artifacts in a standard DVD signal, but 1080p HD rips (downloadable off pirate bay) are 100% artifact free and at higher resolution. If you don't see the point of this then you've clearly never seen the difference on a high quality display.
agreed, a system that tracks more than just direct replies could be nice, but I'd argue that most users would be more annoyed by constant reminders about articles where they replied.
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that everyone wants a different level of involvement in the discussion that they posted to. And that is on a per-discussion basis, not a system-wide configuration.
As the system how do I know how often you'd like to receive updates in the same article as this particular post?
Once again you are saying I should receive updates from every article I post to. If I post to 10 different articles in 1 day and get updates from those every half our I would be extremely bothered by non-direct responses to my comments. Even if they only updated me every half hour with related comments that's 1 update every 3 minutes, which is way too many.
As a system the important thing is differentiating what's "something interesting" and just "something". It's not an easy problem to figure out what you find interesting. At the moment most comment / discussion systems will either tell you about every comment that relates to the original article you posted to, or only direct replies. I can't see a way to differentiate some fuzzy boundary between those 2, and the former (which is what you're suggesting) has too big a noise to signal ratio.
When users post comments to my websites I always require an email address as some kind of validation. When someone then replies to those comments notifications are sent to that email address. Doesn't this cover what you're suggesting already?
Surely any good website developer would expect at least an email address as comment verification, and then be able to notify the poster to replies?
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the quality jump from VCR to DVD is pretty much equivalent to the jump from DVD to 1080p if you have any display of 50" or bigger and capable of a full 1080p signal. On my 50" plasma I can see tons of artifacts in a standard DVD signal, but 1080p HD rips (downloadable off pirate bay) are 100% artifact free and at higher resolution. If you don't see the point of this then you've clearly never seen the difference on a high quality display.
agreed, a system that tracks more than just direct replies could be nice, but I'd argue that most users would be more annoyed by constant reminders about articles where they replied. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that everyone wants a different level of involvement in the discussion that they posted to. And that is on a per-discussion basis, not a system-wide configuration. As the system how do I know how often you'd like to receive updates in the same article as this particular post? Once again you are saying I should receive updates from every article I post to. If I post to 10 different articles in 1 day and get updates from those every half our I would be extremely bothered by non-direct responses to my comments. Even if they only updated me every half hour with related comments that's 1 update every 3 minutes, which is way too many.
As a system the important thing is differentiating what's "something interesting" and just "something". It's not an easy problem to figure out what you find interesting. At the moment most comment / discussion systems will either tell you about every comment that relates to the original article you posted to, or only direct replies. I can't see a way to differentiate some fuzzy boundary between those 2, and the former (which is what you're suggesting) has too big a noise to signal ratio.
When users post comments to my websites I always require an email address as some kind of validation. When someone then replies to those comments notifications are sent to that email address. Doesn't this cover what you're suggesting already? Surely any good website developer would expect at least an email address as comment verification, and then be able to notify the poster to replies?
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