This essay on internet forum behavior by the people behind Discourse is the greatest thing I’ve seen in the genre in the past two or three years. It rivals even some of the epic examples of wikipedian rule-lawyering that I’ve witnessed.
Their aggregation of common internet forum rules could have been done by anyone, but it was ultimately they that did it. My confidence in Discourse’s success has improved.
This essay on internet forum behavior by the people behind Discourse is the greatest thing I’ve seen in the genre in the past two or three years. It rivals even some of the epic examples of wikipedian rule-lawyering that I’ve witnessed.
Their aggregation of common internet forum rules could have been done by anyone, but it was ultimately they that did it. My confidence in Discourse’s success has improved.
“Don’t be a dick” is now “Wheaton’s law”? Pfeh!