FeatureList

• UTF-8 clean for anything that doesn't end up in a URL (i.e. tags, titles, channel names, user names)
  • Of course, some combining marks would have to be filtered, and the resulting text round-tripped through NFD->NFC to prevent certain types of attacks against users or making text difficult to index.
• MathJax support both in comments and in submissions. Mathjax is the math rendering engine used on stackexchange. This will allow scientific discussion between us, people who can read math.
• Channels (like yro, politics, apple) as first class objects
  • "Primary" channels that have DNS shorthand (http://apple.altslash.org/ being equiv to http://altslash.org/ch/apple/)
  • "Secondary" channels that users could create and play editor that use the more verbose syntax (http://altslash.org/ch/baseball/) that is reminiscent of subreddits
  • User channels (i.e. journals) as we've always had
  • display user IDs.

• Submission queues for all channels with membership at the discretion of the channel owner; being able to submit also implies up/downvoting submissions and tagging
  • Editors/channel owners only
  • List of users who can submit
  • All of my friends (for user journals)
  • All users with mod status
  • All registered users
  • Everyone

• Articles are also first class objects
  • Perma-link independant of channel
  • Articles can be cross-posted to other channels by a channel owner (built into the UI if the editor manages more than one channel)
• Comment key features
  • Comments are first class objects, just as before, just like articles
  • Comments can be edited for a short period of time by owner
    • HOWEVER: Edited comments get a new ID and it links to older versions in the new one. This detail is made prominent to viewer if a comment reply happened before an edit.
  • Allow alternate markup options (bbcode, markdown, wiki markup)
    • Provide a mapping to actual div and styles that will be applied, or HTML equivalent codes

• Allow moderation in same article that you've posted in; only disallow moderation to your own reply chain.
  • You're obviously not allowed to moderate in your own accepted or posted article (treating all comments as replies)
  • Does "reply chain" include parent? If not, how do we deal with threadjacking:
    1. AC posts first comment on a new article (let's presume it's an upmod-worthy comment, not fristpsot)
    2. I post my unrelated comment as a reply to AC's FP, in order to achieve greater visibility
    3. I downmod the AC to -1
    4. Now AC is invisible to anyone with threshold != -1 (including many with mod points and threshold=0, who would have modded AC up on his own merits)
    5. Unless/until users with threshold=-1 and mod points happen by to rectify things, my comment is now the first thing most users see.
    6. ??? (sorry, can't resist...)
    7. Profit!
    • Actually, not just the immediate parent like I said, but 'all' ancestor comments. Otherwise as step 1.5 I just reply with an AC troll (which someone else will rightfully downmod), then in step 2 I reply to that; now that the original AC first post is my comment's gp, so I can still downmod it.
  • Good point you should be prevented from moderating any children 'and ancestors of your posts (but sibling chains are still fair game)

• Moderation Engine
  • Moderation tags only (default scores)
    • Overrated -1
    • Underrated +1
    • Offtopic -1
    • Interesting +1
    • Troll -1
    • Insightful +1
    • Flamebait -0.5
    • Funny +0.5
  • Users assign own weights to tags in the range -2.0 -> 2.0 with 0.5 increments
  • System rounds x.5 towards 0 in comment spill / threshold logic, display capped at -1 and 5.
  • A score for the default weights is saved for the comment for use by article spill (for googlebot or "load all comments" from anonmyous user)
  • An optional cryptocoin tipping system, when you like someone's post you can give him a small cryptocoin tip. That might also work as an additional moderating system. Non-moderators could mod-up comments (Insightful, Funny, etc) by eg. 0.5 points by spending some money.
  • What about not-posting in the thread where you moderated? Good or bad rule? Maybe if you really must post, allow cryptocoin paying for post? (eg. "Warning: you have moderated in this thread, if you really want to post you need to spend cryptocoin on that" (??))

• Moderation strategy
  • Chops instead of Karma
  • Chops are derived from:
    • Articles accepted for submission
      • But NOT articles self-authored on a channel you're an editor of
    • Comments that are replied to by others without a troll modifier
    • Positive moderation (as judged by the mod action with respect to their own point value weights... so if they think funny is bad, it counts against you)
    • Positive metamoderation outcome (see below)
  • Registered users that have used the site > [threshold] days, posted > [threshold] times, and have positive chops get moderation duty
    • The more chops, the more mod points per day, with a total cap for unused
  • Meta-moderation is available to users that have used the site > [big threshold] days and have > [threshold] chops
    • Metamoderation is not "special", a meta-mod capable user can see a random selection of recent mods at any time and metamod.
    • Metamod takes 2 mod points <==Explain??
    • Metamod can spend a mod point to "re-roll" and see a new set of random moderations
    • A moderation is undone when it's "score" goes negative. It is "reapplied" when it goes positive. If the score dips to -3, the moderation is removed entirely.
    • A user is not rewarded or punished for the metamod specifically.
      • A running total of positive and negative meta-moderations against them is calculated
      • Certain threshold for positive and negative meta-mod counts result in fixed deltas in chops
        • Having >5 positive metamod could be +1 chop score. >10 +2, >20 +3; >3 negative is -1, > 5 is -2, > 10 is -3