I personally would lean towards the “most AMAs” approach of having most dialogue be with the AMA-respondent. It’s not quite “questions after a talk”, since question-askers have much more capacity to respond and have a conversation, but I feel like it’s more in that direction than, say, a random EA social. Maybe something like the vibe of a post-talk mingling session?
I think this is probably more important early in a comment tree than later. Directly trying to answer someone else’s question seems odd/out-of-place to me, whereas chiming in 4 levels down seems less so. I think this mirrors how the “post-talk mingling” would work: if I was talking to a speaker at such an event, and I asked them a question, someone else answering before them would be odd/annoying – “sorry, I wasn’t talking to you”. Whereas someone else chiming in after a little back-and-forth would be much more natural.
Of course, you can have multiple parallel comment threads here, which alters things quite a bit. But that’s the kind of vibe that feels natural to me, and Pablo’s comment above suggests I’m not alone in this.
I personally would lean towards the “most AMAs” approach of having most dialogue be with the AMA-respondent. It’s not quite “questions after a talk”, since question-askers have much more capacity to respond and have a conversation, but I feel like it’s more in that direction than, say, a random EA social. Maybe something like the vibe of a post-talk mingling session?
I think this is probably more important early in a comment tree than later. Directly trying to answer someone else’s question seems odd/out-of-place to me, whereas chiming in 4 levels down seems less so. I think this mirrors how the “post-talk mingling” would work: if I was talking to a speaker at such an event, and I asked them a question, someone else answering before them would be odd/annoying – “sorry, I wasn’t talking to you”. Whereas someone else chiming in after a little back-and-forth would be much more natural.
Of course, you can have multiple parallel comment threads here, which alters things quite a bit. But that’s the kind of vibe that feels natural to me, and Pablo’s comment above suggests I’m not alone in this.