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I wonder if anyone has experimented with algorithms optimized for sustainable long-term community building. What would that even look like?
by losteric 4y ago
I wonder if anyone has experimented with algorithms optimized for sustainable long-term community building. What would that even look like?
- dgb23 4y agoDon’t know about algorithms, but HN does a good job of being a forum. I think it’s a combination of sensible guidelines, restricted community moderation (votes and flags) and very good manual moderation.
- account42 4y agoHN is decent for discussion about news but is not great for any longer-running discussions - probably intentionally.
- hunter2_ 4y agoI never thought much about it before, but I guess forums should optimize the useful life of a given thread to loosely match the useful life of whatever is being discussed. For example, golfmk7.com is for a set of cars with model years of 2015-2021 (in the US; 2012-2021 globally) so the critical mass of discussions will probably taper off in the next 5-10 years. I don't know the typical lifecycle of homebrew equipment, but a similar bell curve distribution should apply. Very different timeline from discussing news and/or random gossip where nobody will care about that particular conversation a week later.