As I said, I think the social nudges are correct here and working as designed:
nudge to get others to participate in the topic to unlock further deeper conversation
nudge to merge, consolidate, or update previous replies rather than replying to the same topic over and over
nudge to create your own topic so you can control it and post as much as you want about “your thing”; this can be crosslinked with the original topic and will create more overall Google Juice™ since it has a more specific title
Even the implicit nudge to discuss it amongst the community is a good one.
There’s a whole book about this if you’re interested @vegabomb. I have plenty of other reading recommendations as well if you’d like to delve into it more!
It’s a better outcome for everyone if Glen has a dedicated topic for his project with a proper title.
So yeah, nudges are good, in the sense that they drive people to better futures. Can Glen say “to h e double hockey sticks with you, I do what I want and no software can contain me!” … sure he can. Just edit his last post, delete his earlier non-reply, or get others to reply*. Problem solved!
The original request doesn’t even make sense any more, as there are already replies to the topic. Glen’s only limited by his imagination at this point!
So maybe the correct answer is “wait for someone else to reply?” I mean that’s what you’d want in any decent conversation, right, kind of a naturally diverse back-and-forth with many people participating?
My wanting to post in a thread twice in a row doesn’t “nudge” anyone to do anything. That’s flawed logic.
Here you confuse the word “nudge” with “force”. There’s no nudging going on, you’re making people conform.
When a thread is called “show your yoyo pictures” the creator wants to see other pictures. Not his/her own.
This thread is absurd. Numerous reasons have been stated why the “can’t post twice in a row” feature needs to be turned off. No reason has been given to leave it on. Yet it remains on.
It seems as though they are typically pretty busy people though, they rarely chime in on discussions like this. So maybe it would be more prudent to direct message one of them to petition this change.
For the record, I understand why @codinghorror takes the stance that he does on this particular issue, but if this stance was meant to be hard law, there wouldn’t be a built in option to customize the limitation of consecutive comments in a given thread.
The repercussions of allowing more consecutive comments per user could get annoying in certain situations, but it seems harmless enough to try [it could easily be changed back]. These are a couple of our current best, and most active contributors petitioning this change too. @Glenacius_K and @shatterFX
If this would encourage and enable them to continue to post content, I don’t really see the harm in at least trying the limitation of the amount of consecutive responses to like 5 or something. If it really does drive the over all health of the forum into the trash, then it can be changed back! Easy peasy
imagination at this point!
