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I miss Slashdot's 2-dimensional voting system, and meta-moderation system. It seemed to work fairly well, it's just that the submissions got stale over time and

by hnick 3y ago

I miss Slashdot's 2-dimensional voting system, and meta-moderation system. It seemed to work fairly well, it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller which is all that matters in the end for this kind of site.

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
> it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller In my experience, the people in that community want to keep it small, and private. They don't want folks not like them, around. A good way to ensure that happens, is treat anyone that raises issues about the way they are treated, like crap. We won't stick around for abuse. The people that are gaming the system, will endure it as "cost of doing business," but the folks that want to get something from the community, won't stick around. I hardly ever ask any questions, anymore, and have absolutely no interest in visiting, just to answer them. At one time, I was quite enthusiastic about SO, but no more. The shine wore off that knob, long ago. They got the community they wanted.
AJ007 3y ago
hn really ended up replacing Slashdot for me. Disappointingly, I took a look at /. in the past month and realized I hadn't even loaded it out in 4+ years. Ideal would be hn style sites, decentralized like forums, and managed by individual communities. Then, stick to a standard, unlike the old phpBB, vBulletin, etc, so there can be some level of access by API.
- jp10558 3y ago
  That sounds like a web based version of Usenet really.
- resurge 3y ago
  What you're describing sounds a bit like Lemmy [0]. In essence it's a federated reddit. Anyone can host their own instance with its own rules/topic. And each instance can have communities (subreddits). You can subscribe/comment to any of the other instances' "subreddits" from your own instance. [0]: https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/

by hnick 3y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago

> it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller In my experience, the people in that community want to keep it small, and private. They don't want folks not like them, around. A good way to ensure that happens, is treat anyone that raises issues about the way they are treated, like crap. We won't stick around for abuse. The people that are gaming the system, will endure it as "cost of doing business," but the folks that want to get something from the community, won't stick around. I hardly ever ask any questions, anymore, and have absolutely no interest in visiting, just to answer them. At one time, I was quite enthusiastic about SO, but no more. The shine wore off that knob, long ago. They got the community they wanted.

AJ007 3y ago

hn really ended up replacing Slashdot for me. Disappointingly, I took a look at /. in the past month and realized I hadn't even loaded it out in 4+ years. Ideal would be hn style sites, decentralized like forums, and managed by individual communities. Then, stick to a standard, unlike the old phpBB, vBulletin, etc, so there can be some level of access by API.

jp10558 3y ago
That sounds like a web based version of Usenet really.
resurge 3y ago
What you're describing sounds a bit like Lemmy [0]. In essence it's a federated reddit. Anyone can host their own instance with its own rules/topic. And each instance can have communities (subreddits). You can subscribe/comment to any of the other instances' "subreddits" from your own instance. [0]: https://join-lemmy.org/ https://join-lemmy.org/