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This sounds like Reddit's approach of creating sub-reddit's for different topics (e.g. proggit). This works very well in terms of filtering content. It doesn'
by dailo10 16y ago
This sounds like Reddit's approach of creating sub-reddit's for different topics (e.g. proggit). This works very well in terms of filtering content.
It doesn't solve the quality of discussion issue, but it does filter the audience which offers some improvement. The quality of discussion varies highly on Reddit -- popular posts are inundated with juvenile comments, while highly focused posts occasionally have decent discussion.
- jefffoster 16y agoYou could apply the same techniques to comments. Voting up comments I enjoy reading would promote comments I like (and hopefully drown out the ones I don't). Whether this would look at the contents of the comments or just increase the weight of the commentator is up for discussion.