Atwood: Sorting a conversation by votes is a pretty effective way to destroy conversation. How can you follow the logical flow of back and forth, chronological dialog when the ground is constantly shifting underneath you as posts get voted up or down? You can't.
Which is yet another advantage of threaded discussions. Unfortunately Atwood hates them [codinghorror.com], so <strike>rubyBB</strike>Discourse doesn't support it.
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Atwood: Sorting a conversation by votes is a pretty effective way to destroy conversation. How can you follow the logical flow of back and forth, chronological dialog when the ground is constantly shifting underneath you as posts get voted up or down? You can't.
I have done it here for years.
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Slashdot doesn't sort by score, rather it can filter by score. Threading, date/time, etc. all keep their precedence
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That still doesn't break threading
Which is yet another advantage of threaded discussions. Unfortunately Atwood hates them [codinghorror.com], so <strike>rubyBB</strike>Discourse doesn't support it.
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