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.
