Can this be not only comments but also upvotes/downvotes (as you suggest with ‘+1’), questions, and polls relevant to specific parts, quotes, or sections of the post?
One could find it easier to orient themselves in the community responses to different parts of the text when they can hover over a highlighted part and see its karma and reactions. The reactions could also be categorized and users could choose to see only some type of reactions (e. g. not on typos or clarification questions or polls but yes on complementary or contradictory evidence, challenging questions, and idea advancement).
The community rather than the author should select segment that they wish to comment on. Otherwise, the author could ‘hide’ a contentious conclusion in a generally agreeable block of text. However, this has the disadvantage that someone can be responding to the key word in the sentence and another person to the entire sentence. Then, comments that could be consolidated would be split, which would reduce the text orientation efficiency.
Can this be not only comments but also upvotes/downvotes (as you suggest with ‘+1’), questions, and polls relevant to specific parts, quotes, or sections of the post?
One could find it easier to orient themselves in the community responses to different parts of the text when they can hover over a highlighted part and see its karma and reactions. The reactions could also be categorized and users could choose to see only some type of reactions (e. g. not on typos or clarification questions or polls but yes on complementary or contradictory evidence, challenging questions, and idea advancement).
The community rather than the author should select segment that they wish to comment on. Otherwise, the author could ‘hide’ a contentious conclusion in a generally agreeable block of text. However, this has the disadvantage that someone can be responding to the key word in the sentence and another person to the entire sentence. Then, comments that could be consolidated would be split, which would reduce the text orientation efficiency.
I have not seen this on the EA Forum feature suggestion thread, which you may be interested in mentioning it on.