3 ms·

That's neat, and reassuring. There's always doubt in building things like this. It's nice to see that others saw value/opportunity in the same idea. The note o

That's neat, and reassuring. There's always doubt in building things like this. It's nice to see that others saw value/opportunity in the same idea. The note on your blog about moderation is one that we've been a little stumped by. We built another community once, and found that if we gave that power to the first person in a room (or what have you) some abused this. For example, spammers would get in, and we'd be stuck cleaning up their mess. Our current thinking on this point, is to make moderator status a privilege that goes to the most active/helpful user in the channel. So, we're working to determine a user's global karma, as well as their karma in a specific channel, based on amount/frequency of interaction, Nods (similar to likes), and number of times their posts have been reported as spam/inappropriate. This sort of an approach allows moderator status to naturally shift over time to the most active user—knowing that some will likely just drift away from certain channels. Meanwhile, the onus is on the moderator to be fair in their activity, as others in the group could essentially oust them for bad behaviour. I suppose this is overly detailed; however, you touched upon a topic that has been on my mind. And I think writing this out actually helped me clarify it a little more. :-)

jacquesm 12y ago
Yes, moderation is a problem, especially because it does not really scale. The reason I thought that 'moderator = poster, thread closes when moderators logs out' is a nice trick is because it actually does scale. Another option would be start moderation with the first comment posted, and then to close the thread when it reaches a certain rank. At that point in time you could also shut down the comments.
- karjaluoto 12y ago
  I agree, moderation is going to be a real issue for us—particularly as usage starts to increase. My fear with assigning moderation status to the poster, though, is in it being so hinged to one individual. As such, if he/she leaves, the channel stops growing. We're looking at channels less like a session and more like a set of hashtagged posts on Twitter. In that setting, anyone can tag a tweet; similarly, anyone can post in a channel on Chapp. As such, we allow for the discussion to continue to grow, and potentially shift in nature over time. This could be the wrong approach, and there certainly are a number of complications that come with it. That said, we like the idea that each channel could grow into a community of sorts. Additionally, we think this approach lends itself to building stores of (indexed) content that could be useful—perhaps akin to a long-standing forum.

jacquesm 12y ago

Yes, moderation is a problem, especially because it does not really scale. The reason I thought that 'moderator = poster, thread closes when moderators logs out' is a nice trick is because it actually does scale. Another option would be start moderation with the first comment posted, and then to close the thread when it reaches a certain rank. At that point in time you could also shut down the comments.

karjaluoto 12y ago
I agree, moderation is going to be a real issue for us—particularly as usage starts to increase. My fear with assigning moderation status to the poster, though, is in it being so hinged to one individual. As such, if he/she leaves, the channel stops growing. We're looking at channels less like a session and more like a set of hashtagged posts on Twitter. In that setting, anyone can tag a tweet; similarly, anyone can post in a channel on Chapp. As such, we allow for the discussion to continue to grow, and potentially shift in nature over time. This could be the wrong approach, and there certainly are a number of complications that come with it. That said, we like the idea that each channel could grow into a community of sorts. Additionally, we think this approach lends itself to building stores of (indexed) content that could be useful—perhaps akin to a long-standing forum.