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1. If distributed text annotation were done just right, would you be excited to use it? Definition: while reading a text, you can see what other people wrote about it at a ~paragraph granularity. "just right" likely includes filtering/sorting to remove low quality annotations

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Would definitely need to be filtered to only people in my extended network / people I choose to “follow” (for lack of a better metaphor) Add on organised reading sessions focused on specific texts and I’m in (eg. 50 friends-of-friends all mob annotate X article in the same week)

11:46 AM · Dec 28, 2021Twitter for iPhone

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Yes to the reading-with-friends use case! Agree a specific scoped context w/ relatively close network of participants seems best. Things like hypothesis seem to work better in e.g. academic setting vs as a general layer on the web. Has to feel motivated; I'd prob only use rarely

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Dec 28, 2021

The idea for me is “is this a conversation I want to be eavesdropping on regarding this text?” Or “are these people who I want to talk with about this text” the “who“ matters because otherwise it’s just a relatively useless cacophony

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If I could access everyone annotations on an article/book, there should be some way to allow opposing views. I wouldn't want only to read opinions within my bubble This would require a way to select an opposing view. I would want to read something clear and well presented.

If you choose to follow people you don't agree with this problem solves itself ;) But it's a fair concern. It's difficult to engage with a wide diversity of opinions if you don't know they exist. "Opposing" maybe not the right framing though - opinions aren't a linear spectrum

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