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user-inactivated  ·  4305 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A reddit admin on tags

    Yes, whitelisting is an easy way to ensure we never get crap. But it might also leave many kinds of interesting conversation unborn. Since there's so many other places that do simple whitelisting, I'd like to explore other options to enable conversations that don't have a home anywhere else.

I agree and I think hubski's sort of hybrid reddit/twitter universe is a good, novel and interesting approach that enables good conversations. We have the whitelisting approach to aggregation of external content like twitter, but all of that is cast aside in the threaded comment section, which is where real discussion is generated like reddit.