For the anonymity thing, look at my other comment[1]
Tags/categories may seem like a fair idea, but what i don't like in UI's is information overload. So keeping info on a discussion would be pretty cool, but make sure i don't see it if i don't WANT to see it. it should be available, but not "in-my-face".
Also, what do you think people will react to having to type tags or subjects for their posts?
You know what would be super amazing? A discussion visualization/organizing tool. That could perform an analysis on the comments and perhaps group them together by relevance/chaining/sentiment. Would be cool if i open a 200+ comment page on HN or anywhere an immediately see a visual representation of what's going on. What aspects are being discussed and in what sentiment. Like someone posts a Product Landing page. I open the comments and see a lot of discussion about "UI" or "security" or "usability" or "heath risk" or "privacy" , each marked with +ve or -ve sentiments. Now THAT is something worth working on.
EDIT: the tool could do something as simple as marking keywords and giving posts a red or green BG with varying shades based on the sentiment...
We are already having thoughts on the automation of tagging, grouping or categorization of comments. However, before we start working on it, we are validating on how important or necessary this feature would be.
What if, we spend a few days making an awesome automation to do what you mentioned, but no one really gives a st about it. :)
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For the anonymity thing, look at my other comment[1]
Tags/categories may seem like a fair idea, but what i don't like in UI's is information overload. So keeping info on a discussion would be pretty cool, but make sure i don't see it if i don't WANT to see it. it should be available, but not "in-my-face".
Also, what do you think people will react to having to type tags or subjects for their posts?
You know what would be super amazing? A discussion visualization/organizing tool. That could perform an analysis on the comments and perhaps group them together by relevance/chaining/sentiment. Would be cool if i open a 200+ comment page on HN or anywhere an immediately see a visual representation of what's going on. What aspects are being discussed and in what sentiment. Like someone posts a Product Landing page. I open the comments and see a lot of discussion about "UI" or "security" or "usability" or "heath risk" or "privacy" , each marked with +ve or -ve sentiments. Now THAT is something worth working on.
EDIT: the tool could do something as simple as marking keywords and giving posts a red or green BG with varying shades based on the sentiment...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933982
Point taken.
We are already having thoughts on the automation of tagging, grouping or categorization of comments. However, before we start working on it, we are validating on how important or necessary this feature would be.
What if, we spend a few days making an awesome automation to do what you mentioned, but no one really gives a st about it. :)