I’m working on the same problem of improving discussion and curation systems with Tasteweb. I focus more on making it easier to extend or revoke invitations with transparency and stronger support for forking/subjectivity. I’m hoping that if you make it easy to form and maintain alternative communities, it’ll become obvious enough that some of them are much more good faith/respectful/sincerely interested in what others are saying, and that would also pretty much solve deduplication. I think in reality, it’s too much labor, and it would only work for subjects that people really really care about, but those also happen to be the most important applications to build for so.
I like the focus on relevance. Relevance is all you need. If everyone just voted on the basis of relevance, reddit would be a lot better (but of course, the voters are totally unaccountable, so there’s no way to get them to).
I don’t think graph visualizations are really useful. The data should be graph-shaped, sure, but it’s super rare that you want to see the entire graph or browse through the data that way. A tree is just a clean layout for the results of a query from from a particular origin node in a graph. I’d recommend a UI for directed graphs, a tree where things can be mounted to the tree at multiple points, and where it’s communicated to the user if they’ve seen a comment recently before with, eg, red backlinks.
I think this design would be good.
I’m working on the same problem of improving discussion and curation systems with Tasteweb. I focus more on making it easier to extend or revoke invitations with transparency and stronger support for forking/subjectivity. I’m hoping that if you make it easy to form and maintain alternative communities, it’ll become obvious enough that some of them are much more good faith/respectful/sincerely interested in what others are saying, and that would also pretty much solve deduplication.
I think in reality, it’s too much labor, and it would only work for subjects that people really really care about, but those also happen to be the most important applications to build for so.
I like the focus on relevance. Relevance is all you need. If everyone just voted on the basis of relevance, reddit would be a lot better (but of course, the voters are totally unaccountable, so there’s no way to get them to).
I don’t think graph visualizations are really useful. The data should be graph-shaped, sure, but it’s super rare that you want to see the entire graph or browse through the data that way. A tree is just a clean layout for the results of a query from from a particular origin node in a graph. I’d recommend a UI for directed graphs, a tree where things can be mounted to the tree at multiple points, and where it’s communicated to the user if they’ve seen a comment recently before with, eg, red backlinks.