My biggest concern is the potential of toxicity, piling on, trying to get a writer’s attention on a post. One of the things I love about Substack as a “social” platform is how I usually don’t see people trashing other writers here. Tagging could open it up to that.
On the other hand, I would love the ability to call people’s in the commen…
My biggest concern is the potential of toxicity, piling on, trying to get a writer’s attention on a post. One of the things I love about Substack as a “social” platform is how I usually don’t see people trashing other writers here. Tagging could open it up to that.
On the other hand, I would love the ability to call people’s in the comment thread we’re already commenting in! If someone said something insightful somewhere else in a 600+ comment thread, it would be nice to point that comment out to them. It would also be cool to tag other publications in a post and have it work a little like recommendations so you can see who reads your post or follows you.
My biggest concern is the potential of toxicity, piling on, trying to get a writer’s attention on a post. One of the things I love about Substack as a “social” platform is how I usually don’t see people trashing other writers here. Tagging could open it up to that.
On the other hand, I would love the ability to call people’s in the comment thread we’re already commenting in! If someone said something insightful somewhere else in a 600+ comment thread, it would be nice to point that comment out to them. It would also be cool to tag other publications in a post and have it work a little like recommendations so you can see who reads your post or follows you.