Recent discussion about discussions
Vladimir Panteleev
vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Fri Mar 14 01:23:38 PDT 2014
On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 07:54:47 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> Every time a reply uses +1 on its own line somewhere in the
> post (fuzzy match), add the replier's email address to a list
> of "likes" (or whatever) to the parent post. In the web
> interface, we could have an expandable drop-down box showing
> all the email addresses (and/or their display names?) who
> "liked" the post, probably in chronological order. Duplicate
> "likes" are not recorded. At a glance you would be able to see
> how many "likes" a post has, and if you want to see exactly who
> "liked" it, you could expand the list. Meanwhile, NNTP users
> are not deprived of this information (because it's gleaned from
> NNTP reply bodies) although it's harder for them to see the
> tally at a glance. The number of "likes" is limited to the
> number of replies a post has, so it's extremely unlikely to
> grow out of hand, and it's not subject to falsified information
> without overtly spamming the NNTP server.
>
> This still doesn't let you vote without replying, but I don't
> see how that would work without effectively leaving NNTP users
> in the dark.
This approach would mean that mailing list users would get an
email every time someone upvotes something.
I don't think this will work very well in practice.
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