To push back a bit, I feel like unless a reply is reeeeeeeeeeeeeally long I think its good practise to make the effort to read it and respond. Part of putting a post up I think implicitly means we should make the effort to engage with people who engage with us (within reason of course)
To answer the question though, I think a short reply which thanks someone for the comment and perhaps mentions one of their points without comprehensively responding is also completely finr!
I think a short reply which thanks someone for the comment and perhaps mentions one of their points without comprehensively responding is also completely finr!
I wouldn’t want someone to do that to me (I can try to explain why if it’s unintuitive)
To push back a bit, I feel like unless a reply is reeeeeeeeeeeeeally long I think its good practise to make the effort to read it and respond. Part of putting a post up I think implicitly means we should make the effort to engage with people who engage with us (within reason of course)
To answer the question though, I think a short reply which thanks someone for the comment and perhaps mentions one of their points without comprehensively responding is also completely finr!
I wouldn’t want someone to do that to me (I can try to explain why if it’s unintuitive)
(I’m not thinking about replies to posts that I write, but rather—me joining some other conversation and commenting something)
So like you’re on Twitter or Facebook, you comment on someone’s post, and in response you get a wall of text?
I think that’s normally considered a faux pas on the part of the person posting a long response, and the polite thing for you to do is ignore it
I mean on the EA forum / lesswrong