I hope it is. Having the community help build an organized and increasingly niche tree, while not letting anyone make whatever they want, is the best way to go here in my opinion.
I hope it is. Having the community help build an organized and increasingly niche tree, while not letting anyone make whatever they want, is the best way to go here in my opinion.
It's almost a definite yes at this point, the site would absolutely stagnate without this feature. However, you may have to be a 'trusted user' or something to create a group, with possible review...
It's almost a definite yes at this point, the site would absolutely stagnate without this feature.
However, you may have to be a 'trusted user' or something to create a group, with possible review required to prevent the "sprawl of reddit" from happening.
I personally think that any one particular user shouldn't be able to mod more than x number of groups. There's no way that anyone can mod 100 or more groups and be any good at it (obviously...
I personally think that any one particular user shouldn't be able to mod more than x number of groups. There's no way that anyone can mod 100 or more groups and be any good at it (obviously depends on the size of said groups, but still)
Yeah, that's a major part of the purpose of the trust system that we've been talking about. Especially since the trust decays if the user stops participating in the group, it should be almost...
Yeah, that's a major part of the purpose of the trust system that we've been talking about. Especially since the trust decays if the user stops participating in the group, it should be almost impossible for anyone to keep a high level of trust in more than a few groups.
There won't be any situations like "oh, the top mod came back after being away for 2 years and changed everything."
Right, but that’s because there wasn’t an established alternative yet. You’ll remember that reddit didn’t even have subreddits at the beginning, but was still successful. Since this site has to...
Right, but that’s because there wasn’t an established alternative yet. You’ll remember that reddit didn’t even have subreddits at the beginning, but was still successful. Since this site has to compete with reddit (since users are coming from there) there needs to be choice.
The established competitor at that time was Digg and to a lesser extent, Slashdot. I would point to Hacker News as a current example of a Reddit competitor that's both successful and lacks...
The established competitor at that time was Digg and to a lesser extent, Slashdot.
I would point to Hacker News as a current example of a Reddit competitor that's both successful and lacks subreddits.
I would also point out that Tildes isn't intended as a full replacement for Reddit in terms of intended content and focus. To the degree that it's competing with Reddit, the selling point is that it's different.
Edit: and not just different in ways that are universally accepted as better--the design goals are rather opinionated. And it would be a failure of the community goals if magically all of Reddit's userbase was suddenly here. Reddit is intended for (almost) everyone. Tildes is for a much smaller slice.
I like the idea of having groups (top-level communities) being admin-only, or at least require a vetting / voting process. Maybe even continue the tiers downward in the hierarchy; someone with...
I like the idea of having groups (top-level communities) being admin-only, or at least require a vetting / voting process. Maybe even continue the tiers downward in the hierarchy; someone with enough reputation in ~tech could create ~tech.linux, but anybody could create ~tech.linux.rhel
But even that level of thinking through this brings up issues of reputation handling and how the hierarchy should be set up, which explains why user-created communities are a future feature. There are also the considerations, raised elsewhere in this chain, of content dilution and community sprawl. While a site with the userbase of reddit can afford to have an arbitrary number of communities, splintering the core users this early in development could be fatal
Well, i mean, 4chan has fixed boards that moot/Hiro made and it hasn't stagnated. I'm more for voting and then implementing a new group if enough users want it and it makes sense, than letting...
Well, i mean, 4chan has fixed boards that moot/Hiro made and it hasn't stagnated.
I'm more for voting and then implementing a new group if enough users want it and it makes sense, than letting people create their own groups as they see fit.
4chan actually has a decent model with their boards, where certain interests are grouped in the same board (all video games in /v/ for example rather than having a seperate group for every video game like reddit has).
No. According to the docs, this is not yet incorporated, but may be in the future.
I hope it is. Having the community help build an organized and increasingly niche tree, while not letting anyone make whatever they want, is the best way to go here in my opinion.
It's almost a definite yes at this point, the site would absolutely stagnate without this feature.
However, you may have to be a 'trusted user' or something to create a group, with possible review required to prevent the "sprawl of reddit" from happening.
Too many groups, too soon caused the demise of Imzy. I would argue new groups should be an admin feature for now.
Not to* mention how bad some users on Reddit will be in charge of literally hundreds of subreddits, some that are just there to squat on them.
cough qgyh2 cough
Definitely should be for now and in the near future. Once they’re opened for public consumption, I’d argue that they should be manually approved.
I personally think that any one particular user shouldn't be able to mod more than x number of groups. There's no way that anyone can mod 100 or more groups and be any good at it (obviously depends on the size of said groups, but still)
Yeah, that's a major part of the purpose of the trust system that we've been talking about. Especially since the trust decays if the user stops participating in the group, it should be almost impossible for anyone to keep a high level of trust in more than a few groups.
There won't be any situations like "oh, the top mod came back after being away for 2 years and changed everything."
Users were unable to make their own subreddits for the first two years of Reddit.
Right, but that’s because there wasn’t an established alternative yet. You’ll remember that reddit didn’t even have subreddits at the beginning, but was still successful. Since this site has to compete with reddit (since users are coming from there) there needs to be choice.
The established competitor at that time was Digg and to a lesser extent, Slashdot.
I would point to Hacker News as a current example of a Reddit competitor that's both successful and lacks subreddits.
I would also point out that Tildes isn't intended as a full replacement for Reddit in terms of intended content and focus. To the degree that it's competing with Reddit, the selling point is that it's different.
Edit: and not just different in ways that are universally accepted as better--the design goals are rather opinionated. And it would be a failure of the community goals if magically all of Reddit's userbase was suddenly here. Reddit is intended for (almost) everyone. Tildes is for a much smaller slice.
I like the idea of having groups (top-level communities) being admin-only, or at least require a vetting / voting process. Maybe even continue the tiers downward in the hierarchy; someone with enough reputation in ~tech could create ~tech.linux, but anybody could create ~tech.linux.rhel
But even that level of thinking through this brings up issues of reputation handling and how the hierarchy should be set up, which explains why user-created communities are a future feature. There are also the considerations, raised elsewhere in this chain, of content dilution and community sprawl. While a site with the userbase of reddit can afford to have an arbitrary number of communities, splintering the core users this early in development could be fatal
Well, i mean, 4chan has fixed boards that moot/Hiro made and it hasn't stagnated.
I'm more for voting and then implementing a new group if enough users want it and it makes sense, than letting people create their own groups as they see fit.
4chan actually has a decent model with their boards, where certain interests are grouped in the same board (all video games in /v/ for example rather than having a seperate group for every video game like reddit has).
No, see here and a dozen other places.