That's an interesting point of view, to think about what things to discourage / remove / hide, rather than what to show.
Thanks for the link to Discourse — I haven't noticed the words "you must suppress discussion" until now when you pointed them out.
The only ways I could think of implementing that, was by collapsing threads with relatively few upvotes, or that people flag as off-topic. Hmm..., S.E. actually does it also via making comments smaller, via community guidelines and by removing formatting. I wonder if that can make sense in forum software.
Your mentioning "suppressing discussion" made me think about something, namely removing the discussion completely: collapsing long sub threads, and replacing them with auto generated summaries of the most interesting things therein, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8581040
Actually I don't understand "What subject matter do you wish to approach" (not a native English speaker). Could you please rephrase?
Thanks for the link to Discourse — I haven't noticed the words "you must suppress discussion" until now when you pointed them out.
The only ways I could think of implementing that, was by collapsing threads with relatively few upvotes, or that people flag as off-topic. Hmm..., S.E. actually does it also via making comments smaller, via community guidelines and by removing formatting. I wonder if that can make sense in forum software.
Your mentioning "suppressing discussion" made me think about something, namely removing the discussion completely: collapsing long sub threads, and replacing them with auto generated summaries of the most interesting things therein, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8581040
Actually I don't understand "What subject matter do you wish to approach" (not a native English speaker). Could you please rephrase?