[OT] Re: Why D isn't the next "big thing" already

[Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 23:33:27 UTC, LaTeigne wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 23:11:23 UTC, Seb wrote:
>> On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 22:52:23 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 12:30:55 UTC, LaTeigne wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 12:24:55 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, 30 July 2016 at 12:18:08 UTC, LaTeigne wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> it you think that you know the things better than somebody 
>>>>> who actually *lived* there in those times... well, keep 
>>>>> thinking that. also, don't forget to teach physics to 
>>>>> physicians, medicine to medics, and so on. i'm pretty sure 
>>>>> that you will have a great success as a stupidiest comic 
>>>>> they ever seen in their life.
>>>>>
>>>>> also, don't bother answering me, i won't see it anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Fucking schyzo ;)
>>>> Have you took your little pills today ?
>>>
>>> Well this is beautiful marketing for the language. At some 
>>> point, the leadership will need to put away ideology and get 
>>> realistic about what belongs on this site.
>>
>> I would love to see the forum evolve into something similar to 
>> reddit, where everyone can judge the value of a comment/thread 
>> and off-topic threads (or threads with low-values) get 
>> down-voted very quickly. It might also help to avoid such 50 
>> pages threads (like auto-decoding) as the most-important 
>> thread stays on top and newcomers to the discussion don't have 
>> to read everything to get the gist.
>
> Preliminary documentation work:
>
> https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algorithms-work-ef111e33d0d9#.vawc5kat8
>
> And you wan submit the result on Pantallex DFeeds.
>
> The widget on the homepage must use something similar (except 
> for up/down) votes. So at least 10 replies + something with the 
> age of the topic. [OT] is usally a good hint about the quality 
> of the topic but people must remember to add it when they slide.

I am not sure whether CyberShadow has the time to add this 
feature, so I doubt this will come in the near future without 
someone volunteering and implementing it. The code is here, so if 
anyone wants to send him a PR:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

 From recent experiences one should definitely get the okay of 
Andrei & Walter first that such a huge change is wanted.

In any case I was trying to say that we could use reddit more 
actively, we have our own subreddit 
(https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language), but it's not used for 
discussions. So maybe killing the bot & actively encouraging a 
discussion to move to reddit once it hits the OT barrier, might 
be an easy solution.

I opened a thread on reddit about this, in case you are 
interested ;-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/4vel7m/can_we_kill_the_dlang_bot_and_its_ghost_threads