You are completely ignoring that this is 100% intentional. I feel like I’ve said this to @BCHK a hundred times, but I’ll just keep saying it because I think it’s that important:
You should not reply until you’ve at least tried to read the whole conversation.
Otherwise those anons will get to the first reply that pisses them off / triggers something strong, and then mash the reply button as hard as they can, leading to
Also, by not even trying to read the rest of the conversation
- you may be repeating something someone else already said
- you may not have heard the complete set of perspectives in the conversation
- you may be responding to something that was already resolved later in the topic and dredging it up again in a way that’s derailing the topic
etcetera.
Hence, the reply button is at the bottom of the topic which is a reward for those readers who are willing to read all the way to the bottom. These are the new users you want replying, not the hair-trigger finger new users waiting for a single post to set them off in some way that precludes any further reading.
Now should we have a “screw up the experience for everyone by allowing lots of barely engaged drive-by users to reply to the first thing that triggers them rather than trying to read the whole conversation which is the entire meaning of the word Discourse and why I founded this project in the first place” setting? Perhaps. But it’d have to be opt-in, not on by default.