Being in a different time zone I missed out on the trial, bummer. I'm looking forward to actually trying it out. Going back to the original discussion it seems this is a measure designed to weed out comments that are nasty and low in content.
The potential issue I see is that this feature adds a layer of complication and indirection to solve a cultural problem.
There are two classes of low-grade comments: the "normal" ones which quickly sink to the bottom because they're downvoted into oblivion, and the "crafty" ones that get a lot of upvotes even though they're cheap, inflammatory, personal, repetitive, or just generally trollish (like for example the maneuver where someone posts a reply disagreeing with an imaginary point that was never made in the parent).
The existing voting system is pretty good at filtering out the normal trash, but it fails to address the crafty pieces - so I assume the Pending Feature is designed to address those. I'm not sure it can though, because the crafty trolls seem to have a lot of fans and the same people who upvote these things today are just going to endorse them in the future.
Sorry for spit-balling from the cheap seats, I'm actually excited to find out how the new system works in practice. It intuitively it feels like a layer of complexity with dubious benefits, but that said: addressing the underlying problem is a worthy cause.
The potential issue I see is that this feature adds a layer of complication and indirection to solve a cultural problem.
There are two classes of low-grade comments: the "normal" ones which quickly sink to the bottom because they're downvoted into oblivion, and the "crafty" ones that get a lot of upvotes even though they're cheap, inflammatory, personal, repetitive, or just generally trollish (like for example the maneuver where someone posts a reply disagreeing with an imaginary point that was never made in the parent).
The existing voting system is pretty good at filtering out the normal trash, but it fails to address the crafty pieces - so I assume the Pending Feature is designed to address those. I'm not sure it can though, because the crafty trolls seem to have a lot of fans and the same people who upvote these things today are just going to endorse them in the future.
Sorry for spit-balling from the cheap seats, I'm actually excited to find out how the new system works in practice. It intuitively it feels like a layer of complexity with dubious benefits, but that said: addressing the underlying problem is a worthy cause.