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Online Community Models?

Posted by Cliff on from the something-better-than-directed-graphs dept.

buzzcutbuddha asks: "I have been tasked with creating/finding a Collaboration and Knowledge Management tool for work, and while there are some good commercial ones out there like Intraspect and Microsoft Sharepoint, but I want to look at it from another angle. Most people are aware of online community models like Slashdot, Kuro5hin.org, Everything2.org, it's Perlmonks derivative, and Wikki Wikki Web. Some may even remember SixDegrees from before it was retired. But are there any other notable online communities that have similar functions to the systems described above? I'm looking for a way to let people load documents or link to documents, discuss the documents, moderate the submissions and comments, and do searches. At this point, the underlying technology is not important."

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  1. I'm confused (most of the time). by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    You say you've been asked to find a tool, yet the unlying technology isn't important? I don't get it. Do you want sucessful communities (doubtful) or do you want good software? or features for communities? or what?

    A site with sections and story queue is good. Open moderation to stories and comments is its' own problem though kuro5hin seems to function quite well. Comment moderation categories just opens the door to quibbling over whether it's genuinely offtopic, or funny - allowing respondants to HiLaRiOuSlY acuse the moderator of being on crack. Ha! Crack! Genius! Not tired at all!

    E2's messaging is good.

    Zope's slash rip-off (I forget the name, it used to run on technocrat.net) allowed file attachments. That's useful for any distributed software development team.

    A wiki, like any flat data structure, doesn't push old content into depths (something the slash-a-likes are guilty of, being linear, though for a news site it's probably necessary).

    Drupal.org and Half Empty are kinda nice engines. I'm working on my own ("in every mans life there must be one php/mysql weblog - and this is mine").

    Interface wise I have a preference for calenders. I like URLs that are clean looking. I like engines that aren't crufty like PHPnuke.