> Of course, I've never really understood why people love these web > forums so much, they are a usability nightmare a lot of the time :-/ > After a community grows to a certain size, having dictatorial control is necessary in order to prevent chaos. I've always preferred Usenet, but discussions have moved towards mailing lists, to allow for greater moderation. This worked for a while, but site-owners want to control discussion further. This has encourages the use of forums, where every display/click/expression is controlled by the site owner.
This leads to less control for the user (no killfiles, etc), but better community management. When combined with the propensity for new users to think that the internet IS the web, it helps to explain why people use forums more than mailing lists. The newest trend however, is a public/subscribe model akin to facebook/twitter, wherein individuals maintain control of their own postings, and who they want to read, but community is managed by now subscribing to people who you aren't interested in receiving. Trolls and spam are instantly eliminated, but it becomes difficult for a new member of the community to become heard. I think this is the right model for on-freenet discussions ;) -CPD > Ian. > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM, xor <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > > My POV is there: > > http://www.freenetforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8&p=25#p25 > <http://www.freenetforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8&p=25#p25> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > > > -- > Ian Clarke > CEO, Uprizer Labs > Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Ph: +1 512 422 3588 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
