Recent discussion about discussions

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:46:05 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 3/13/2014 11:42 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> That may be one reason to use a pre-existing forum software.
>
> It still requires constant attention.
>
> We are not moving away from Vladimir's forum software. It is very fast,  
> it integrates seamlessly with netnews while providing common forum  
> behaviors, etc. And, it provides a premium example of kick-ass software  
> written in D.

I don't disagree, my point was merely if you want voting, and you don't  
want to reinvent the anti-gaming mechanisms, using another software would  
be a plausible option.

I personally don't think "gaming" the vote makes much sense. In the D  
forums, posts quickly fade from memory. If you want to "game" the votes, I  
don't see what that buys you when nobody remembers that post next week  
(sometimes even tomorrow!)

> I've never used any forum software that is better (including Reddit).  
> Reddit blows because there's no indication of which comments have been  
> read and which have not, making it very tedious to monitor one thread  
> over a period of time.

Reddit sucks. I personally like disqus for real-time discussion. It has a  
system of flagging new posts that have appeared while you were sitting  
there.

I would love to see d forums have more live-update features. It would make  
it more like a Newsgroup, where you don't have to refresh to see new  
things, posts just show up when they are posted.

-Steve