If you could take your favorite elements from various social media platforms to create the ideal space, what would it be like?

  • Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    For me, it would mainly be a blend between Tumblr and booru-style image boards, allowing users to follow people and tags, with filtering by tags and collaborative tagging. A trust-based moderation system akin to Discourse. I’d also want the ability to block tags and a Reddit-style tree-like comment system for better discussions. A nuanced voting system similar to Slashdot’s could help finding quality discussions by differentiating between types of content and allowing sorting by these different types.

    • Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      this was something I loved about slashdot moderation. When voting, people had to specify the reason for the vote. +1 funny, +1 insightful, +1 informative, -1 troll, -1 misleading, etc.

      That way you can, for example, set in your user preferences to ignore positive votes for comedy, and put extra value on informative votes.

      Then, to keep people from spamming up/down votes and to encourage them to think about their choices, they only gave out a limited number of moderation points to readers. So you’d have to choose which comments to spend your 5 points on.

      Then finally, they had ‘meta moderation’ where you’d be shown a comment, and asked “would a vote of insightful be appropriate for this comment” to catch people who down-voted out of disagreement or personal vandetta. Any users who regularly mis-voted would stop receiving the ability to vote.

      I don’t think this is directly applicable to a federated system, but I do think it’s one of the best-thought-out voting systems ever created for a discussion board.

      edit: a couple other points i liked about it:

      Comments were capped at (iirc) +5 and -1. Further votes wouldn’t change the comment’s score.

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