11 month ago
Rod Begbie : xkcd : ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat - An interesting way to moderate IRC chat: Only allow unique new sentences to be spoken. #
joshua : Attacking Noise in Chat - the problems of noise vs stagnant communities and the effects of moderation
Andy Baio : xkcd's Robot9000 attacks noise in real-time chat - a parallel IRC channel only displays lines of conversation that've never been spoken before [via]
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17 month ago
nelson : Joel hates blog comments - I mostly agree with what he's saying
plasticbag : Joel Spolsky talks about the lack of value that anonymous comments (or maybe comments in general) offer the blogger - Allowing people to post without registering has been considered insane for online communities for a decade at least, and I've argued that comments are unnecessary because people can post on their own sites. But I'm not sure I'd go as far as Joel...
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19 month ago
wearehugh : Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous
jcgregorio : Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous
jimray : Matt Haughey's got some tips on how to do online communities right - "If you're building a community you have to love what you're doing and be the best member of it." Well put, probably explains why most "communities" built by large companies are so spectacularly bad (guilty).
WillPate : Some Community Tips for 2007
François Nonnenmacher : Some Community Tips for 2007 - Seven tips on how to run a successful community
Jeremy Zawodny : Some Community Tips for 2007 - Some Community Tips for 2007: smart stuff from Matt (as usual)
factoryjoe : Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous - Every year or so I write a long post or do a presentation at a conference on the subject of community. Each time I approach the subject, I take what I've already written and add to it with recent things I've learned or learned long befor
Linkorama : Some Community Tips for 2007 - Matt has a nice new and helpful blog, how fortuitous
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22 month ago
Andy Baio : Six cool things you can build with OpenID - great list; the biggest hurdle is getting developers to understand what OpenID isn't
wearehugh : Six cool things you can build with OpenID
plasticbag : Simon Willison writes about six cool things you guys out there could go and build right now using OpenID - I'm particularly interested in the SSO problems inside firewalls. This seems like a highly elegant idea. Use software that supports OpenID and then constrain it to your local provider. Tada! You have integrated SSO across multiple internal services...
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Architectures of Control in Design - "How products increasingly control and restrict your behaviour" - weblog by Dan Lockton. Really interesting.
joshua : Architectures of Control in Design
veen : Architectures of Control in Design - "Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour."
Nelson Minar : Architecture of Control - Blog about design that intentionally makes things difficult (via HotLinks)
jkottke : A weblog about "architectures of control in design", an ongoing exploration of products "designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour" - A weblog about "architectures of control in design", an ongoing exploration of products "designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour".
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28 month ago
wearehugh : Workbench: Help! Help! You're Being Repressed! - "After a decade of publishing on the web, I finally reached my fuck-that moment regarding censorship"
deusx : Workbench: Help! Help! You're Being Repressed! - "Telling someone you have a right to free speech on their site is like walking into their house and demanding a ham sandwich." Right on!
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29 month ago
plasticbag : Atomiq talks about a nomic Digg - basically a version where you could change the ruleset - I love that this idea keeps being independently rediscovered and pushed - online communities with self-reflexive rulesets is something I've been harping on about for years. But they never get built. Really wish I had the flexibility to explore this stuff
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32 month ago
plasticbag : An interesting post on ways people game digg.com - Basically people are setting up forums where people can trade diggs with one another to get their links onto the homepage. Digg are unsurprisingly not keen on this as an approach. Interesting social dynamic going on there...
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33 month ago
joshua : Moderation Strategies | Main / HomePage - Strategies of online moderation
kellan : Shirky: A Pattern Language for Moderation Strategies - I love pattern languages, and this is an excellent start. E.g. main problems with community can be addressed by MakeIdentityValuable #
plasticbag : Upsettingly - but perhaps unsurprisingly - Clay Shirky's moderation strategies wiki has been overrun by revolting porno spam - It's all spurts and holes and sluts now. Very upsetting, but probably predictable. The open wiki is pretty much a thing of the past now already.
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35 month ago
Andy Baio : Second Life's virtual prison - they send you to The Cornfield
Nelson Minar : Virtual Prison - For bad Second Lifers. Spooky. (via Waxy)
plasticbag : Weirdest moderation technique ever - Second Life griefers are sent to 'The Cornfield' - If you misbehave a fair amount you are sent to this weird environment with only a slow tractor, lots of corn and a depressing film playing in black and white on an old TV for company. The big question is whether or not curious people will act up to see th
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Barbelith discusses "The Psychology Of Trolling" - My community are so cool - and sometimes it's great to remember how many skilled professionals are on the board - including mental health workers - who can really give an interesting perspective to these questions...
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Simon Willison : Metafilter new user signups are open - Requires a $5 one-time donation.
plasticbag : Memberships available on Metafilter for a one-off $5 donation to the server fund - The donation does not entitle you to any special treatment and if you misbehave you will be ejected. I quite like this approach as a way to deal with bandwidth and a way to cut down on rogue users abusing the system.
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