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- No friends or follows - The feed can be organized by top/new stories or threads - Posts and submissions can be upvoted/downvoted with a karma-like system

- No friends or follows - The feed can be organized by top/new stories or threads - Posts and submissions can be upvoted/downvoted with a karma-like system - The more someone's posts are downvoted, the more transparent their entire profile page becomes - dang is the only moderator

prawn 4y ago
I get your joke, but I actually find that the faint posts draw the eye more. I tested something similar on a forum of mine, where unverified/anonymous posts were collapsed by default, but found that I and others were just expanding them to check for drama. Reddit collapses threads too, but I actually find that what's left is "enough" to get a read on a thread (in a subreddit like r/NBA for example, probably less so in something political) and I rarely expand for more.
- Minor49er 4y ago
  I wonder if a toggle to show/hide posts from unverified accounts would work better for most users. Have you tried something similar with your forums?
  - prawn 4y ago
    Not a button to do it for the thread en masse. I haven't experimented enough but suspect the key is rewarding positive contributions rather than focus on penalising the negative. e.g., have a threshold based on liveliness of a thread, and render visible anything above that. The rest is collapsed or worse. I think then if you expand looking for drama, and half the time just find something mundane that didn't make the grade, you'll settle on just reading the abbreviated best-of content. To be honest, not much online is critical reference material or vital how-to. I think most of us need to be helped in staying out of the gossip and button-pushing grime. Streamlined threads surely help. Do we really need to read every one of 1,000+ comments on Musk doing x or y? Any time I hit a hurdle on Reddit (e.g., trying to force me to login to read something contentious) I use it as a reminder that I'm probably wasting time and should do something else. It's a hurdle at the time but seconds later I'm appreciative!

prawn 4y ago

I get your joke, but I actually find that the faint posts draw the eye more. I tested something similar on a forum of mine, where unverified/anonymous posts were collapsed by default, but found that I and others were just expanding them to check for drama. Reddit collapses threads too, but I actually find that what's left is "enough" to get a read on a thread (in a subreddit like r/NBA for example, probably less so in something political) and I rarely expand for more.

Minor49er 4y ago
I wonder if a toggle to show/hide posts from unverified accounts would work better for most users. Have you tried something similar with your forums?
- prawn 4y ago
  Not a button to do it for the thread en masse. I haven't experimented enough but suspect the key is rewarding positive contributions rather than focus on penalising the negative. e.g., have a threshold based on liveliness of a thread, and render visible anything above that. The rest is collapsed or worse. I think then if you expand looking for drama, and half the time just find something mundane that didn't make the grade, you'll settle on just reading the abbreviated best-of content. To be honest, not much online is critical reference material or vital how-to. I think most of us need to be helped in staying out of the gossip and button-pushing grime. Streamlined threads surely help. Do we really need to read every one of 1,000+ comments on Musk doing x or y? Any time I hit a hurdle on Reddit (e.g., trying to force me to login to read something contentious) I use it as a reminder that I'm probably wasting time and should do something else. It's a hurdle at the time but seconds later I'm appreciative!