Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
by skybrian on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:23AM
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Despite the exceptions and workarounds, the defaults matter for the user experience and social dynamics of an online forum.
Even on Hacker News, the various moderation features and things like being able to edit your post after publishing make a difference to how the community works. It's not only what you can get away with but also what people feel like they have a right to do.
An interesting proof of concept might be to try to create a forum like Hacker News, but using distributed software.
Re:Facebook Profit Jumps 71% Year-over-Year
by losteric on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:15PM
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I think those features are compatible with this model - RSS handles edited content just fine (clients can store the old content, but there is a canonical "latest" version).
Even on Hacker News, the various moderation features and things like being able to edit your post after publishing make a difference to how the community works. It's not only what you can get away with but also what people feel like they have a right to do.
An interesting proof of concept might be to try to create a forum like Hacker News, but using distributed software.