I'm still catching up on this discussion because apparently the last week of discussion went to my spam folder, but on the topic of reddit for nomic:
I ran a game on https://www.reddit.com/r/nommit for some time. We eventually tried to move to a wikia before falling apart due to few players, but I have some thoughts on using reddit. Reddit is nearly antagonistic to chronological sorting, as the website and all apps default to a voting based sorting system. Additionally, stuff like sidebar content and stickied posts don't show up easily/at all depending on the mobile app people are using. However, reddit does have an rss function (that I didn't know about during nommit). This rss function seems to have some delay on aggregating content, but it shows new top-level posts on a subreddit (info here: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/rss). Even if you do that, new posts won't show up on people's front pages because the front page is based on votes. Plus, you're making users work around the design of the site. It's certainly doable, but it kind of undermines the advantages of using reddit for a community. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On 2016-06-20 15:20, Brian Greer wrote: > > Makes more sense to start a new Nomic there rather than try to migrate > > Agora there. As pointed out below, the way it naturally filters would > > represent a very different culture. I’m curious how that might develop > > from the ground up with something fresh. > > Well, a fresh nomic can always be done; think I've done several during > my time on Agora but none have lasted. No harm in it, but in the current > context I'd prefer exploring whether it's a useful outpost for Agora. > Remember we've got an IRC forum as well, no harm in diversity of > communication methods. > > I don't think, for example, it would change the "flavor" very much to > say: 'Proposals are posted in a thread and Up/Down votes must be done > in that thread. A link to the thread must always be posted in email > as well.' > > A single reddit-style thread is also a natural home for an Agoran-style > Court Case record. Players can post gratuitous arguments directly, and > a Mod can tag the official judgement in the thread as official (and I'm > guessing that someone can get the reddit API to scrape it and send a > summary to email if desired). > > At the same time, I agree that going *wholly* to a system like that would > be very different; BlogNomic for example felt very different while I was > playing it. > > >
