On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 17:45, Brion Vibber wrote:
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:36, The Cunctator wrote:
At least 90% of our problems would be solved, without adding hierarchies and censorship, if we just moved to a bulletin board system.
What are the problems that this would solve, and how would it solve them?
It would solve the basic scaling problems * the problem of flooded inboxes * the problem of lack of threading * the problem of ephemerality of content (by making it easy to refer to earlier threads)
These scaling problems underlie the current tensions causing the upswells of conflict on the lists.
If the bbs were integrated with the Wikipedia system (that is, it recognized users and/or allowed people to make wiki links) it would solve * the problem of obscurity and * the problem of not being able to link directly to [[Wikipedia]] * the problem of not being able to coordinate Talk page discussion with list-based discussions
Etc.