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ziq wrote (edited )

Make parts of threads/convos collapsible like reddit.

Support, but not only if they're manually collapsible. A lot of people have said they don't want things to auto-collapse after 5 downvotes like reddit does it because it would create a hierarchy.

you can post one thread in multiple subs using tags

Support, but with limits. 3 forums max, and only the first forum you select should show up on the front page - otherwise we'll have nothing but repeating threads littering /all.

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moon_princess wrote

While I wouldn't want to have subs with extreme rules differences like "It's okay to be a racist piece of shit here," the idea of merging threads between subs is iffy because different subs may have different communicative norms or ideological perspectives that could make partitioning discussions a reasonable choice.

I'd rather not force carnists into vegan threads or egoists into conversations about actual anarchism, for example. It's bad enough when people like that just go out of their way to tell other people that they're being wrong unsolicited.

If someone involved in two different subs talking about the same thing thinks it would be fruitful to crosslink them, they can probably do that themselves. At most I could see how an automatic reddit-like "Other Discussions" tab could help (even that I'm opposed to unless some economy of scale makes it seem more useful than conscious cross-linking), but I'm definitely against the idea of auto-merging.

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Defasher wrote

Well Stirner wasn't an anarchist, and egoist spaces (including f/egoism) have increasingly moved to distance themselves from anarchism.

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Defasher wrote

Egoists aren't anarchists. Egoist-anarchists are.

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BloodyWallet wrote

Everyone is an egoist. The question is whether and to what extent they embrace their egoism.

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zombie_berkman wrote

The first point would be nice. Also image "preview" feature that RES has would be nice

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sudo wrote

I fully agree with #1, but #2 would present problems when it comes to moderating comments, or having a moderator edit either the post or comments. Right now, I assume each post is a child of a forum. For this to work, each post would have to exist independently of the forum, and the forum would just have a pointer to the post (which would be dereferenced whenever the URL, text, or title need to be accessed). When a mod deletes a post, they'd just be deleting the pointer. Once all pointers to the post are deleted, it'd make sense to delete the post itself (so, I suppose they'd be smart pointers). That works fine as far as deletions, but having a mod edit a post or comment would be a problem, because that would either mean their edit shows up on forums they're not a mod of, or it would mean they'd be creating a new branch, so the posts and comments wouldn't be in sync anymore.

If you're not a programmer, ignore the implementation details I gave above.

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Defasher wrote

I think if someone chooses to crosspost something, they'd be wilingly agreeing to follow each of the sub's rules and allow the mods from all subs to have veto rights over their thread.

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sudo wrote

Perhaps for the poster. But there might be conflicts between the mods of each forum, if their rules are incompatible, because a change one mod makes to the thread would appear on the other forum, too.

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