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Personally I slightly more believe in benevolent dicatorships, than democracy, when it comes to open source :- ) A way to crowdsource ideas, upvote ideas so the core maintainers know what's popular. A way to disqus the ideas. And then the maintainer(s) / core developers, listens to the discussions, and they make decisions, based on that. However making democratic decisions, where everyone has one vote (?), sounds like long term disaster to me :- ) because a few people, the core developers who build 99% of the software, will (I think) have 100 x more insight, than members in general. ? then, equal voting power = could drive away the core contributors? if the community makes weird decisoins? > consolidate the number of tools Then possibly a project I'm doing could be of interest to you. It's called Talkyard and let's you do both blog comments (like Disqus) and question-answers and crowdsourcing ideas (like Loomio), and simple chat channels, in one tool. https://www.talkyard.io You have a link to your project? Aha it's https://glitr.io about memes |
you are right this could be a disaster... what are the options to to moderate this?
many cloud providers provide services that could be relevant here... to specify a few: - https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ - https://cloud.google.com/vision/ - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cognitive-service... - companies that provide "moderation-as-a-service"
im doing this project as a hobby. no particular lofty goals for this project than "to work". my plan is to learn as i go along... but im expecting difficulty in the project (given i should only be spending hobby-time on it).
the success of this project would be great... but ultimately, this is not my goal. i do not plan for big deep investment in this project... purely for fun and education... im hoping there are others out there that could learn from this project too.
i will try to incorporate your feedback into this project. i think i need to document the project further before i can identify anywhere i should improve.