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This feels to me like a very difficult but tractable design problem
One thing that's interesting is that the difference between something that *just feels* like snipey one-upsmanship vs. a productive "yes, and" is subtle. "Hmm. There is also..." vs. "Yes! I also notice..." or even subtler, "Note that..." vs. "Isn't it crazy how...?"
I wonder how NLP sentiment work varies from transcribed in-person conversations to discussions online. I don't think the same tags ("yes," "hmm," "note that," etc.) work quite the same way across contexts
Part of it is probably just that all the layers of in-person interaction (content + tone + body language, etc.) plus the richness of in-person relationship history means that there are a lot of kinds of nuance that are both less present and sometimes *forced to collapse* in text
I mean, I *know* that people have been talking about how easy it is to misinterpret intent from text for ages... but I also think we've possibly been trained by way of low-resolution text tools to *start* with less emotional range when we're dealing with Internet People.
This is what I wanted to say about your initial tweet. There are a huge range of reasonable interaction styles. It is sensible to zero in on the point of disagreement, even if minor, if the alternative is a mutual back-patting society. But it can be misinterpreted.
Some people, women especially, habitually phrase things so as to lower the likelihood of being misinterpreted in this way. Other people, men especially, don't. Sometimes it's a lack of awareness, sometimes it's a point of principle.
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