Oddbean new post about login | logout I think it could be also the UI issue, not just the moderation. Discord has a pretty poor threading functionality IMO. Just a one-level reply makes it more like a radio communication channel, where you have to keep saying "over", and it gets messy pretty quickly with more people trying to talk. I think Slack is much more versatile and better suited for both conversations, and broadcasting.
I agree that it's a UI issue, although I'm very interested in the difference here between slack and discord. Can you elaborate on that?
Slack collapses threads similarly as Reddit. And further responses in the threads get displayed to (and notify) only the people in the thread. Discord - every further response gets posted as "quoted noted" in the main channel. Slack has an opt in checkmark to repost the thread response at 1st level note "to all", but it doesn't spam everyone by default. I also prefer slack over reddit that when I click to "open the thread", it rolls up the whole thread, not just it's chunks. On the other hand, on reddit, I prefer the unlimited, and clearly visualized nesting/forting. So that people can dive into independent rabbit holes on invividual pieces of the threads without adding noise to others.
I think Facebook used to do the UI pretty well too. Just sometime recently they added some algo inside the threads which might be little controversial, but it's a cheaper substitute to human moderation.
This is really helpful, thanks. What did you mean by "it rolls up the whole thread, not just it's chunks"?
For example Primal web is the peak of "chunks". AFAIK, it always shows you just one further level of responses, but if you want to see response to a response, you have to click again to go " further ". Slack - it might be just a nature that it allows just a 1-level-deep responses, and everything is then just a chronologically sorted responses to the top level note. - On the top level note, you see "123 responses in the thread", clicking on the note loads a note specific page with the full thread of responses below. - whenever you get tired of scrolling and reading, you just click to go back (or use keyboard shortcut), and you land back to your channel feed. I always liked the setting when anyone is allowed to create any amount of public (ie searchable) or private channels. And then even within the channels, no matter how many participants they have, it's easy to browse the top level notes, and zoom into only the ones you care about. Someone still might be spammy and keep responding to everything. But it's little easier to just scan and skip than in the pure chat UIs.