Use placeholder text to improve comment submission quality

[patcon]

Currently we use "Share your perspective..." as the placeholder for comment submission.

There is probably an opportunity to use this placeholder text to help moderators gently nudge people to leave the sort of comments they'd most appreciate seeing. (e.g., "I feel worried that..." or "I think that we should...")

But why stop at just one prompt? The prompt might differ depending on the moderator? And there might be a few examplar prompts.

We could instead us an animated placeholder to dynamically demonstrate a few choice prompts, like so: https://www.cssscript.com/demo/animate-placeholder-typewriter/

• Should this animate?
• Should animation vs static be a per-convo choice?
• Should there be defaults?
• Should moderators be able to add their own prompts to cycle through?

I feel that this option could allow people to learn how best to prompt their participants, and since there are many different sorts of audiences, it's hard for use to set one default for everyone (e.g., is the audience a bunch of academics or residents of a gentrifying low-income community?)

Thoughts?

Related: http://crccheck.github.io/text-mix.js/#/I'm%20worried%20that.../I%20feel%20like%20we%20should...

[patcon]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/typewriter-effect

https://github.com/adrianmcli/react-rotating-text/blob/master/src/ReactRotatingText.js

https://codesandbox.io/s/lr3q0q32vq https://github.com/haowen737/react-typewriter-hook#readme https://codepen.io/AliKlein/pen/aPyKjy https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49886123/trying-to-create-a-typing-effect-on-reactjs/58053492#58053492

[patcon]

Ah, think I found the best library for this, which is intended for typing in input fields: http://mattboldt.github.io/typed.js/#input

h/t @arecvlohe of @nativesintech (found while checking out new website :tada:)

[patcon]

(Note that this issue should try to take into account accessibility of animated typed text)