On 6/20/2020 2:42 PM, Stefan Fjellander via agora-discussion wrote: >> I know the downside to chat systems is that things aren't recorded in a > way > that can be referenced long term, > I happen to run an somewhat nomiclike conlang discord server, where we have > a few channels corresponding to agora discussion, which are just as any > else, and then in the channels corresponding to agora business you have to > format messages a certain way and then, once the bill [we're not dealing > with non-bill things] passes or fails it is automatically archived in a > "showcase" channel. (Things corresponding to agora official just go in a > channel where only our equivalent of office holders can send messages, but > where all can read.) > > I know changing fora can be hard (see https://xkcd.com/1782/), and that > discord is a specific company as opposed to the email concept which is (if > i'm not too wrong) very openaccess, which both are downsides tho, so i > think a thing of this calibre should be carefully discussed and thought > through by all active members.
lol on the xkcd, considering we still have an (almost entirely dead) IRC channel. But when it was most active (~10 years ago?) it did keep some of the discussion volume more manageable, there was more "this conversation is just two of us hashing out wording let's take it to IRC". I think our main hesitation at auto-service is that this is a very "linguistic" game and we tend to like (perhaps too much as Aris recently pointed out) seeing how we can twist natural language around to use loopholes. But I think 90% could be exported to something more automatic (perhaps a type of forum that's strictly limited, so you can do basic stuff in a set format, be we don't have to constantly monitor it for Apathy intents or anything). -G.
