Reddit style forum

[jahaz]

I was wondering if anyone had thought about of using thanks to push better articles to the top? (Maybe freshness + # of thanks)

Forum
- Thread 1 (100 thanks / updated hour ago)
- Thread 2 (1000 thanks / updated 3 days ago)
- Thread 3 (15 thanks / updated 2 hours ago)

Also it would be nice to comment threads, where instead of having reading all the comments in a thread to find one response to a specific comment it just shows all responses below. Comments that are most useful are pushed to the top.

Main thread message
> Comment 1 (thanked 10 times)
> Comment 2 (thanked 5 times)
>> RE: Comment 2
> Comment 3 (thanked 1 time)
> Comment 4 - ect (thanked no times)

I think this would help people get answers quicker and not have to ask the same questions over and over.

Not a web developer but I think this could be accomplished with existing data.

 

[jazzc]

Oh, excellent idea, let 's give people a serious incentive to abuse the thanks button. Do you think we should also have a section in the marketplace for thanks bots? I can already see the titles "Iron Man / Hulk / Fantastic 4 - BHW thanks spam bot - Make your thread a virtual sticky - $$$$$"

 

[jahaz]

Fine. I still think a comment thread would work, then I dont have to read 8 pages to see a response to the question I want.