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Joel on Community Forums

Posted by michael on from the better-mousetrap dept.

Evil Grinn writes "In Building Communities with Software, Joel Spolsky starts with a lament about the lack of real-life community among programmers, but rapidly seques into an explanation of why he thinks his own forum system is better than Usenet or Slashdot. I really don't participate in Joel's forums enough to comment, but they are pretty basic. No registration system. No branching (you can only add comments to the end of a conversation, not reply to comments in the middle). No mod points. Quoting in replies is strongly discouraged. All of these are part of the design of the system, not missing features."

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  1. Re:First by bellings · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this should be the only thread.

    No branching, please.

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  2. Nice catch, Joel by L.+VeGas · · Score: 4, Funny

    All of these are part of the design of the system, not missing features.

    ha ha ha - That's what I tell my boss too. No undo button? Yeah, mmmm, that's part of the system. Yeah, that's the ticket!

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  3. Re:Stop trolling by L.+VeGas · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know the name of my logical fallacy. It's called "lame joke".

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  4. Re:Whatever by ObviousGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

    quoting doesn't encourage ... trolls

    I beg to differ.

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  5. Works as designed? by Revvy · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...then the design sucks, too. -My other sig is sour.