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Wow a shout out for our Discourse project from Avi. This made my day, thank you! And yeah, distributed discussions are moon-shot hard, unfortunately.
by codinghorror 11y ago
Wow a shout out for our Discourse project from Avi. This made my day, thank you!
And yeah, distributed discussions are moon-shot hard, unfortunately.
- avifreedman 11y agoWe'll loop detect to end the mutual admiration society, but thanks from you makes my day :) I just tweeted a pointer to "Doing Terrible Things" and suggested people read all of the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe". I want "Falsehoods as a Service" - outsourced paranoia. And yes, distributed discussions that preserve free speech and allow eliminating crap is definitely moon-shot hard.
- PopeOfNope 11y agodistributed discussions that preserve free speech and allow eliminating crap is definitely moon-shot hard. The way you just defined the problem, it's not moon shot hard; it's a logical impossibility. "Free speech" and "eliminating crap" are complete opposites. You can't have one with the other. If you want a high quality of discussions, some people are going to have to be deprived of their voice to make that happen, either through moderation or selective membership.