Joel on Community Forums

Evil Grinn writes "In Building Communities with Software, Joel Spolsky starts with a lament about the lack of real-life community among programmers, but rapidly seques into an explanation of why he thinks his own forum system is better than Usenet or Slashdot. I really don't participate in Joel's forums enough to comment, but they are pretty basic. No registration system. No branching (you can only add comments to the end of a conversation, not reply to comments in the middle). No mod points. Quoting in replies is strongly discouraged. All of these are part of the design of the system, not missing features."

Re:First

[bellings]

I think this should be the only thread.

No branching, please.

Nice catch, Joel

[L. VeGas]

All of these are part of the design of the system, not missing features.

ha ha ha - That's what I tell my boss too. No undo button? Yeah, mmmm, that's part of the system. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Re:Stop trolling

[L. VeGas]

I know the name of my logical fallacy. It's called "lame joke".

Re:Whatever

[ObviousGuy]

quoting doesn't encourage ... trolls

I beg to differ.

Works as designed?

[Revvy]

...then the design sucks, too. -My other sig is sour.