I’d like to call attention to Elizabeth’s use of bolded comments for opening up separate question threads. I’m not sure how novel that is, but I’ve never seen it before, and it’s brilliant! Much better than ending a post with a string of questions and leaving people to fend for themselves as they sort out the answers.
If you plan on posting something and want to encourage discussion, I strongly recommend doing what Elizabeth did here. I’ll try to find a way to incorporate her technique if the Forum team ever publishes a “guide to writing good posts”.
I’d like to call attention to Elizabeth’s use of bolded comments for opening up separate question threads. I’m not sure how novel that is, but I’ve never seen it before, and it’s brilliant! Much better than ending a post with a string of questions and leaving people to fend for themselves as they sort out the answers.
If you plan on posting something and want to encourage discussion, I strongly recommend doing what Elizabeth did here. I’ll try to find a way to incorporate her technique if the Forum team ever publishes a “guide to writing good posts”.
Ben Hoffman discussed this back in December 2016 (his recent posts don’t do this though), and he seems to cite Arbital propositions as inspiration.
I’m not sure if Elizabeth got the idea from Ben or if Ben came up with the idea.