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One thing that's easy to forget is that super-complex weighted moderation/voting systems can get computationally expensive at the scale of something like Twitte
by sbarre 4y ago
One thing that's easy to forget is that super-complex weighted moderation/voting systems can get computationally expensive at the scale of something like Twitter or Facebook etc..
Slashdot had a tiny population, relatively speaking, so could afford to do all that work.
But when you're processing literally millions of posts a minute, it's a different order of magnitude I think.
- qsort 4y ago> Slashdot had a tiny population... Tiny, specific, non-generalist population. As soon as that changed, /. went down the drain like everything else. I still like /.'s moderation system better than most, but the specifics of how the system works are a second order concern at best.
- bombcar 4y agoThe real problem with ALL moderation systems is Eternal September. Once the group grows faster than some amount, the new people never get assimilated into the group, and the group dies. "Nobody goes there, it's too popular."