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I had similar experience on Telegram where groups that grew in size plummeted in quality. I just came up with the following concept reading your comment: a slo

I had similar experience on Telegram where groups that grew in size plummeted in quality. I just came up with the following concept reading your comment: a slowmode, so that people can write once every x minutes, but others who are mostly read-only can give 'points' to those writing messages in the moment to bypass slowmode, basically they are voting for quality discussions to continue.

haolez 2y ago
This would need to be dynamic, since a delay that works for a group of 1,000 would probably clutter a group of 100,000. And if all users post at the exact same time, slow mode doesn't help. But maybe there's value in solving this problem :) Interesting idea!
- baby_souffle 2y ago
  > But maybe there's value in solving this problem :) Traditional topics/channels? The reason why sites like HN/Reddit ... etc "work" is because you've got to click into the comments on some post to see those comments. You're not going to the hacker news front page and just getting _all_ the comments nor is some algorithm deciding which posts/comments you should see and which you'll never know about. Threads work - to a point - but at some meaningful scale, you need all these CTOs on a server with sub-sets of them in various channels dedicated to particular conversational themes. The more accessible a community becomes, the more important consistent moderation is... otherwise it'll just go downhill fast.
  - ibaikov 2y ago
    Nope, topics don't work. Telegram added topics and you can add them to the group chat, but it killed almost every chat that I have seen add it. What happens is people start conversations on random themes and this additional friction of posting to the right topic kills the motivation to post at all. Also, people start to only open topics they like in the group, and close the group if there's nothing to see in these topics. If there were none - they could find something interesting for them randomly, or answer some question, but they just won't find it because they only check topics they like. It also feels more strict, like a confluence wiki of questions/situations and you can't effortlessly chat about something.
    - bradleykingz 2y ago
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PhilippGille 2y ago
There is https://slowsocial.us https://slowsocial.us for "write once per week", but no upvoting to remove the limit.
SoftTalker 2y ago
Yeah there probably are a few hundred great/exceptional CTOs who would find value being in a group. There likely aren’t thousands. There certainly aren’t tens of thousands.
anal_reactor 2y ago
The problem with community-based moderation is that the group quickly turns into an echo chamber

haolez 2y ago

This would need to be dynamic, since a delay that works for a group of 1,000 would probably clutter a group of 100,000. And if all users post at the exact same time, slow mode doesn't help. But maybe there's value in solving this problem :) Interesting idea!

baby_souffle 2y ago
> But maybe there's value in solving this problem :) Traditional topics/channels? The reason why sites like HN/Reddit ... etc "work" is because you've got to click into the comments on some post to see those comments. You're not going to the hacker news front page and just getting _all_ the comments nor is some algorithm deciding which posts/comments you should see and which you'll never know about. Threads work - to a point - but at some meaningful scale, you need all these CTOs on a server with sub-sets of them in various channels dedicated to particular conversational themes. The more accessible a community becomes, the more important consistent moderation is... otherwise it'll just go downhill fast.
- ibaikov 2y ago
  Nope, topics don't work. Telegram added topics and you can add them to the group chat, but it killed almost every chat that I have seen add it. What happens is people start conversations on random themes and this additional friction of posting to the right topic kills the motivation to post at all. Also, people start to only open topics they like in the group, and close the group if there's nothing to see in these topics. If there were none - they could find something interesting for them randomly, or answer some question, but they just won't find it because they only check topics they like. It also feels more strict, like a confluence wiki of questions/situations and you can't effortlessly chat about something.
  - bradleykingz 2y ago
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PhilippGille 2y ago

There is https://slowsocial.us https://slowsocial.us for "write once per week", but no upvoting to remove the limit.

SoftTalker 2y ago

Yeah there probably are a few hundred great/exceptional CTOs who would find value being in a group. There likely aren’t thousands. There certainly aren’t tens of thousands.

anal_reactor 2y ago

The problem with community-based moderation is that the group quickly turns into an echo chamber