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I don't think it's fair to call any of the post's suggestions purely "technical solutions". They all involve changing the user interface and that can make a dra
by graue 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to call any of the post's suggestions purely "technical solutions". They all involve changing the user interface and that can make a dramatic difference in how an online community functions.
(In contrast, pg's idea to assign different weights to comment votes would be invisible, leaving the site UI as is. That is a purely technical solution.)
- thaumaturgy 14y agoI'm not clear on how changing the user interface isn't a technical solution, especially in contrast to such a low-tech thing as a community manager. I didn't mean to imply that technical solutions wouldn't make a difference, even dramatic ones, just that they could not completely take the place of some manual effort.
- erichocean 14y ago> I'm not clear on how changing the user interface isn't a technical solution Because by "user interface", we mean "human interface" or "people interface". Such changes are human-/people-oriented, pretty much by definition. pg's "solution" is purely technical, since the human interface wouldn't change at all.
- pbiggar 14y agoIf your definition of "technical solution" is as broad as to mean "any code change at all", then by definition, all changes will be technical. But at least the first two options here are social, not technical (though of course, as with any change on the site, they will require code to change them).