Armchair speculation: how can we learn from Reddit, Lemmy, “Hacker” “News”, et al?
(psst: I might be working on “a thing”).
#POSSE note from https://seirdy.one/notes/2022/06/14/better-vote-enabled-forums/
- A vote should be part of a reply with at least
N
words.N
could be increased by mods and admins. Instances could federate votes conditionally based on the length or activity of a comment. Word counts can be problematic; I don’t know a better alternative (maybe clause-count?). Flagging doesn’t need a minimum word count. - Forums shouldn’t host their own top-level posts and comments. Those should be links from authors’ own websites with microformats (think IndieWeb). The forum should be Webmention-enabled.
- Larger communities should have ephemeral chatrooms (“ephemeral” in that public history has a retention limit if it exists at all) to incubate posts. Authors (yes, original authors) could share their work and collect feedback/improve it before it’s “ready”. They could then post with increased visibility.
- One reason to flag a top-level comment could be “didn’t look at the post”. I say “look at” instead of “read” because certain posts are huge essays that could take hours to read. Top level commenters should at least be expected to skim.
(psst: I might be working on “a thing”).
#POSSE note from https://seirdy.one/notes/2022/06/14/better-vote-enabled-forums/
Better vote-enabled forums
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