> No way to vote on comments, no formatting or embedded images (which work with all clients, including the web UI), no way to edit comments after you've posted them
Can you cite any study evidence that suggests that these are helpful features in this context (or even that they aren't massively harmful? Comment voting in particular appears to be an especially strong source of toxicity and online forums that feature it prominently have a pretty reliably history of going down in flames after a few years).
Can you cite any study evidence that suggests that these are helpful features in this context (or even that they aren't massively harmful? Comment voting in particular appears to be an especially strong source of toxicity and online forums that feature it prominently have a pretty reliably history of going down in flames after a few years).