Recent discussion about discussions

[w0rp]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 18:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I would also like a voting system, much like what reddit has. 
> The downside is such a system can easily be gamed. I know 
> reddit has stuff in place to blunt gaming, and such may be 
> beyond our resources to do (it requires constant attention).

I personally don't like Reddit's voting system because it ends up 
being controlled by a hivemind. I prefer the imageboard approach 
of everyone being on equal ground myself, but then again that 
requires anonymity and probably isn't appropriate here.

The Hacker News voting system seems to be pretty good, however. 
New things tend to go to the top, and then you can filter by 
points with say /over?points=x Inside comment threads, voting 
doesn't appear to be a factor. I still find the tree structure 
hard to read.

I actually use the D forums for all of my posting these days. I 
find it easier to comprehend the order of threads. I think we all 
have our own ways of getting at the threads.