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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