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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by seppel on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:25PM (#25156444)
But that's an UI/UX problem. I had extremly long running usenet discussions back then. My usenet reader was giving me a tree view of all topics were I could:

* See all news messages since the last time. I could see all the threads, news messages were marked in bold. * Cycle through them, i.e. show me next unread. * Make whole threads as read (when the topic is not interesting to me) * Ignore a thread or subthread (when it's going offtopic or completely uninteresting to me)

And it was also super easy to filter out idiots, without anyone moderating the stuff.

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by u801e on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:29PM (#25156800)
> And it was also super easy to filter out idiots, without anyone moderating the stuff.

That's one thing I've found lacking in practically any single forum out there. IMO, client side moderation is the best kind of moderation. That said, it can be daunting to a newcomer if the signal-to-noise ratio of a group is rather low due to numerous trolls, cross-posters, etc and they don't have their killfile set up yet.

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