cothalesr

It seems that the project is now dead, sadly. But you could easily pick up where they left off since it's open source.

http://www.goblincamp.com/

Here's a relevant book in the works that everyone should keep their eye on. http://beautifulracket.com/

It'll be interesting to compare how "making your own language" is achieved in both guides. Although, the racket situation may be super different, the basic steps seem to be similar.

I'm actually looking for an alternative to Reddit-like communities. I understand that upvotes and downvotes encourage good content theoretically. But that is only if the guidelines of voting are followed.

The guidelines seem to only be followed when a subreddit community is below a certain amount of participants. When a subreddit gets larger and more popular, the voting system creates a predictable, boring, and fascist echo chamber.

When I think about it, the voting on content (the threads) is a very different thing than the voting on the comments inside the threads. Most of the silencing of dissenters and upvoting of the like-minded happen in the comments sections. The voting on the content is a bit less biased, because usually things get downvoted only if they're lame or don't belong in the subreddit.

Any thoughts on how to solve the fascism problem while also encouraging good behavior and good content?