My Thoughts on What's Wrong with Saidit

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[–]send_nasty_stuff 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Front-page you see this delightful post. 14-11 votes, 96 comments mostly pointing out that it's a shit quote, a one sentence claim by Einstein, and one single garbled comment from OP, our hero /u/endlesssunflowers, a smug fedora-tier attack on a strawman, not responding to any of the 95 comments

This is called thread abandonment and I ban it on my sub(s). If you want a good site all the power needs to be in good moderation and minimal interference from admin. If there's minimal interference from admin users will naturally gravitate to well moderated subs. That the direction reddit was on from 2012-2016 but they took a hardcore departure when Trump got elected.

We need actual mods who can work to actually implement this dream of a "pyramid of debate" centered site.

It's impossible. A pyramid of debate is to open to interpretation and manipulation. It was a good starter idea but the admin on saidit needs to start listening more to user suggestion or the site will stagnate and die.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Depends. Everyone uses SaidIt in a different way.

Some people think of subs as a community, others as a topic, and others as a place to mod-squat, and others as random noise. Personally, I think of SaidIt.net as the only community.

I think the Pyramid Of Debate is solid, but needs many many examples to cite from (like law), so that when it's actually enforced it can be compared to past examples and justified. Actually enforcing the POD is another matter all together and requires some consistency.

[–]SaidOverRed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well organized, short examples. So a mod and easily lookup or a user can speed read to get the idea.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Indeed! Short and organized. I hadn't even considered that far ahead.

The SaidIt wikis have been terribly under utilized, IMO.