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by dchuk 2936 days ago
This is a neat way to highlight interesting things going on here, but as others are pointing out, it surfaces the challenges of a temporal ranking system creates...this was a very manually curated post that could probably be easily automated.

A few of us have been chatting at https://hackerforums.co because of this after a thread here made me realize many others pined for the bulletin board systems of old. It’s much quieter than day 1/2 but it’s still healthy.

I have a draft thread in the works that highlights how it’s all running and how it’s done growth-wise since launch, hoping to get it posted next week.

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Hi, man! I saw your forum had experienced spam-bots attack. I have a suggestion...

Do you know any messenger app based on replicating database in which users' messages are acknowledged by their transfer history through a social graph? So, a new user must ask several registered ones to broadcast the creation of a new node in that social graph, and then he will be able to post his messages by relaying them to the rest of the system through those users who registered him. Spam-bots could be then filtered out by black-lists...

Simple idea, I'm sure someone had to make it already. Do you know any? Thanks for the effort!

I implied just sharded database of messages, no need to replicate it. With customizable filters along data transfer path, of course.