In Soviet Russia, the forum talks on you.
Now that that's out of the way, I'm posing a question to my few and loyal (you all are wearing the qedi tshirts I'm not actually selling, aren't you?) readers.
What would your ideal web forum look like?
I don't really like the flat chronological threads that most bulletin boards use, like the Ars' OpenForum or really any ubb derivatives. It's hard to talk in a few directions on one specific topic. What do you do when one topic on something wants to go in two separate directions? I mean, that's where proper threading works wonders, like usenet/email software. Is that the way to go? What other popular non-flat (ie non ubb-derivative) webforum software is there?
As I collect more thoughts on this, I'll hope to post them here.
December 12, 2005 at 00:00:00 EST http://artsweb.uwaterloo.ca/~skdoner
I thought you didn't want me to wear that tshirt in public... The problem with proper threading is that you need some way to enforce it. That's where things get tricky. Is it possible and worthwhile to moderate for formatting purposes? And who's to say t
December 12, 2005 at 00:00:00 EST
-1, offtopic
Well, that's a valid point. On restricting the author's point, I don't see that as an issue. As long as the author was talking about the parent post at one point, it's no longer offtopic.
If they then want to use that and go to more