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40hz:
This and this over at TechCrunch. Not so much something to copy as some ideas to think about.

A couple of paragraphs that stood out:

Reader Interaction: One thing you may have noticed about Medium is its lack of comments at the bottom of pages—which seems to have become an unfortunately ubiquitous feature of the web. We believe that normal web comments don’t add a lot of value on average (at least of the type we’re looking to create). However, we do think there is value to be had in reader feedback and interactivity. So, we’re working on a way of allowing reader participation (on an optional basis) that offers something new and different that comments don’t. We hope to have it on the site (at least to test out) by mid-January.
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This latest product, Medium, allows people to create collections of content based on a theme or subject, and then invites others to add pieces to those collections. It’s truly collaborative, and after using it for the past week, it actually excites me to write a personal “blog” again. But it doesn’t feel like a blog, it’s something new altogether.
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...there’s a stat called “reads,” which is different than “views.” This means that the team is working on a way to figure out how many people actually made it through your story and didn’t just click and glance. That’s huge for writers, and, at the end of the day, readers. Knowing what you’ve really read, or even close to it, is an amazing statistic to try and crack.
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Interesting. Almost like The Well meets a wiki. A process that Neils Larson called "information annealing" and designed his MaxThink/Houdini products to facilitate.

More on info annealing here and here.

 8)


Of course there's always this risk:

ever been there?
;D

mahesh2k:
Don't start all over again just for the focus. Keep few things focused on new forum software and give less public (non logged in) attention on other projects. Swith to IPB If you can.

See as well if DC can have section for attracting new developers with their software and you can seriously split the developers who want to offer deals and sales with the one that are introducing their own software.

superboyac:
A little off topic but not really...
I thought youtube's latest commenting system is pretty cool.  Through voting and stuff, the most helpful comments get moved up, bad comments are hidden (but you can still read them if you click on them).

TaoPhoenix:
A little off topic but not really...
I thought youtube's latest commenting system is pretty cool.  Through voting and stuff, the most helpful comments get moved up, bad comments are hidden (but you can still read them if you click on them).
-superboyac (December 21, 2012, 04:15 PM)
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You gotta be careful with that one here. Youtube has a ton of ... uh ... low grade comments, 10,000% more than we do. So we could end up seeing who is in "cliques" here if suddenly random comments become tagged as hidden etc.

MilesAhead:
I have an idea.  We could have something similar to a Scavenger Hunt. Every week a new clue is posted. The first one to find Skrommel gets $100 donation credits.  No fair Skrommel "finding himself" to cash in though.

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