@Daen - About Thread/Comment mimicing

Hyrum Graff·8/4/2014, 4:36:51 PM·2 votes·467 views

Here's an example of where it would be useful to have a comment be linked to an OP.

######Mods: this is in the right place, it's part of a Boards feature discussion that Daen and I were having on pvp.net a couple days ago.

The rest of you: This is an idea of mine in progress - I'll make a post explaining it for real when it's fully fleshed out.

tl;dr, the ability to make a comment into its own OP, with the ability to link upvotes, replies, etc.

If you want to discuss it, drop by the CommunityPlatform chat room and I'll talk if I'm around.

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Sir ArmaMalum8/4/2014, 4:38:50 PM2 votes

I must have missed this convo, what exactly is meant by "linked"? Kind of like being a featured comment or having their vis score contributing to the OP?

Daen8/4/2014, 5:15:04 PM1 votes

Right so, the discussion we had in communityplatform was around the concept of allowing users to automatically create a new thread using the text from a comment posted in a different thread. The comment would either be condensed into a link to the new OP or have the link included on the comment somewhere.

The main conversation centered around these questions:

Is this feature something that would be used enough to warrant development time?
What is the potential for abuse, and do the positives outweigh the negatives?

#Pros

Allows users to more easily distribute content
Streamlines the process of creating a new thread based upon a topic in a different thread

#Cons

Development time
Possibly incentivizes thread hijacking