Thoughts on conversation-generative online discussion platforms and...

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2021-06-16 21:30:08

Thoughts on conversation-generative online discussion platforms and features I've become increasily aware of how conversation medium and participants shapes the "quality" of conversation. Conversation scales poorly. It's also fragile and very easily destroyed, discouraged, or dissuaded. The biggest issue I find on Reddit itself is that there's no notion of "thread (or post) as conversation". And absolutely no support for same. Reddit is where interesting conversations go to die. An item is posted. It's at top-of-page for ... a few minutes or hours, possibly days ... then vanishes And no amount of activity within a thread will boost it, generally. Even those who'd participated in the discussion have no signal of any activity. The best that can happen is that members might subscribe to replies for two days. This is madness. Put another way, Reddit's post-weighting algorithm is all but entirely determined by posting time, not activity recency. This avoids "necroposting", for b...