Sticky Posts
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(conversational bc transcribed from a discord post linked at bottom)
ok i'd like to raise an olde idea again and that is having an instancewide Sticky Posts to supplement announcements to be able to make discussions that are intended to lead to a proposal more visible to the instance. loomio and discord merely by virtue of being separate platforms are less visible, so let's try and do a lil bridging of mediums.
here's one idea of what that might look like:
v1
- currently we have a Discussions stage in governance docs (https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Governance#Discussions) we can make that a more formal definition and say that a discussion intended to lead to a proposal is a stickied post.
- ping a member of social wg (make sure these are up to date) or start discussion here to make a sticky post
- sticky posts come from an autofollowed @ discussions account
- ... are local only posts
- ... show themselves at the top of the home and local feed with a highlighted background color to offset them from the feed
- ... have a "minimize" button that is persistent across sessions, so once you minimize a sticky post it is hidden but still visible, I'm thinking like a 1em bar across the top of the feed
questions:
- can we just use browser storage to remember collapsed status rather than needing to make a new column in the statuses table for 'collapsed'
- should stickies have a time limit? or just a mechanism to close them in governance process?
v2
a) The threading interface on the web interface is awful, b) it would be nice to be able to show a title on a minimized sticky post c) ideally we would be able to organize discussions around topics and questions rather than chronologically in a more forumlike way
so
- posts can have titles
- titles are declared with a special "title" field in the web ui
- or with a first line beginning with a # from other clients, a la markdown
- replies with titles can be minimized too
- replies with titles are sorted first (bc they can be minimized)
v3
if we can make it so you can change your vote in a poll on masto (can you already? i don't think so) then could we just move voting onto masto? We aren't using many of the loomio features aside from threading and voting, the only thing we would miss is some of the more rarely used stuff like being able to vote on quantities or other things like that.
- display time left to vote in minimized sticky post
Additional Rambling
Actually I sort of think if we did this then anyone should be able to make a sticky post, some other ideas for how that could work could be default sticky posts can last 7 days, and then we could make categories so you could eg. only show the proposal discussions, etc.
now that i'm thinking about it that sort of rocks as a general nice thing to have for longer form discussions, so it might be nice to be able to just make 'sticky' a general thing you can do to posts, but they abide by the normal rules of muting and blocking and whatnot so if someone is annoying you you can just mute them, but since the discussion account is special you wouldn't want to mute it
it seems easily abusable but it also seems like something that would be able to be normed s.t. the benefits would outweigh the costs (this would be an example of something that fits better as a norm than a policy imo, yo don't spam the stickies please but that's hard to put in numbers)
Discord
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