On the flip side, I'm glad I have a counter example of what good commenting is. I took a screenshot and will use it as an exercise for my Lean PKM course.

Countering false assertions with a total misunderstanding or hiding behind an avatar are poor practices

I was thinking also a grace period for public comments during which the author can correct or respond. Otherwise annotations will become a thing of the past like blog comments.

And a general evaluation, if all comments are negative, deprioritize them until a trend appears.

I'm sure @dwhly has ideas on filtering public annotations too!

no because several commentators would go in the same direction.

But you're true in fine you have to deal with hate, extreem opinions, moderation.

Means that Twitter moderation and cred impacts everything else.

Surely not lost to the buyer

I wonder if something could be done with the UI to present social annotations as more "optional". To give a choice of seeing conversations about a paragraph while reading without being overly influenced by them.

Maybe something like this -- just showing a dot for each "point of public conversation" after the quote they reference. The actual annotation would only appear if you click on that dot, you have to make up your own opinion first.

I feel like there is power in not controlling what people say about you. Let's say this was a nazi article. The allowed comments would be heavily moderated and you wouldn't see the real picture