I’m curious if there are any discussion platforms out there that fall between Reddit and image boards in terms of structure and moderation.
The main thing I’m looking for is a platform that organizes discussions by user-created tags instead of communities or subreddits. This would allow more flexibility in categorizing topics.
A tag system could hopefully make it easier to filter out or avoid content you don’t want to see. This could include topics like graphic violence, abuse, self-harm, pornography, hate speech, politics, religion, phobias, anything related to past traumas, etc.
I know some communities allow you to filter by flair, but I’m imagining a more customizable tag filtering system to really tailor what you do and don’t see.
Does a platform with this kind of tag-based organization and filtering already exist?
I’d allow users to choose from a set of predefined tags, not create their own.
And namespaced tags could be cool. So you could have aww:caturday or pcgaming:rpg
The site UI would need to be really good or lots of tags on a single post would look awful.
And I wonder how bad actors would attack it? Mistagging probably, but how effective could that be?
I don’t know how image boards manage it, but they are always curated properly; I’ve yet to see troll tags.
Extensive moderation and copious bans
I think you just invented Usenet
I had this idea years ago where users would utilize tags rather than cross posting. I really hate x-posting, but a lot of users like subscribing to subs. Tags would allow you to both subscribe to or filter out a very specific topic wherever it happens to be posted.
I guess you could add search alerts or keyword filters and eliminate x-posting.