It isn’t though, because:
- scroll down
- read until you discover someone who is Wrong On The Internet™
- slam the reply button on their post as hard as you can
- profit
There’s 0.0% difference between that behavior – someone who stopped reading before the end of the topic and slammed a reply button – and what we currently have.
To fix that, we would need to do things like
- prevent people from submitting their reply until they physically reach the end of the topic (e.g. pop a “sorry, can’t submit until you scroll all the way down” dialog when they press the submit button)
- show actual read time / posts read in the topic next to the user’s name to shame them into reading more
- literally hide all reply buttons until you reach the bottom of the topic
Which of the above do you prefer @sam? Please reply and let me know.