Hat tip to Alok on this piece. This feature is all about parsing through the text of a comment or an OP that allows a critic / commenter to be more specific about his votes in the Boxtag. It should work like the highlighting function of the Kindle app that allows that. It makes sense that extended annotations can generate new content and that can be established in a proper UI. However there should be some limit. I'm happy to make the limit along the lines of whatever it might have been in Nelson's Xanadu.
It occurs to me as I visualize that the inheritance of 'subtexts' can be navigated through on a left-side panel which resembles the pages of a PDF file as a multipart entity. The way this displays in Mac Preview (several versions up to and including Big Sur) is illustrative. So the new OP, which is a comment, displays front and center. Annotations are on the right-side panel and mousing over them highlights the highlighted text. This would be similar to how such annotations are done in Google Docs. The point is that we extend the critical range beyond the OP into the comments. But we also extend the critical range of the OP itself by allowing people to highlight its strong, weak and off-topic points.
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