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Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by jacquesc »

minimaxir wrote: post #28
jacquesc wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2 reasons initially: - prevent too much spam, moderation workload - encourage honest (harsh) feedback that the product owner can take action on. also if the same feedback comes in twice from 2 diff people, thats a great indicator. public comments do not allow that (since most people wont duplicate a comment if they already see someone else saying it)

Those are both very bad reasons for making commenting private. 1. A downvote system is sufficient to catch spammers, with explicitly moderation needed for edge cases. (And those edge cases would be applicable even in private commenting) 2. Harsh feedback is discouraged on Product Hunt because of the elitism. Having comments public will not discourage it. (C.f. Hacker News)

oops, i forgot to mention the real reason: lack of time for v1 :)

adding a real commenting system is on the table for sure, ill create a github issue for it and we can discuss with the community about pros/cons

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by mindcrime »

donfrancisco wrote: post #33
danielrakh wrote: post #19

So who's going to be the first one to submit this to Product Hunt? :D

I does it. So meta. Much huntings. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/openhunt

Now somebody should submit ProductHunt to OpenHunt!

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by andersonmvd »

jacquesc wrote: post #15
DanBC wrote: post #13

I'd join this. It's asking for scary permissions: > Read Tweets from your timeline. > See who you follow, and follow new people. > Update your profile. > Post Tweets for you. Please, consider adding more options, or explaining how you use those permissions. (For example, you can do what you like to my facebook wall.) EDIT: Lack of public posting is an interesting choice. It doesn't feel like much of a community. I ca…

Oops, that's a mistake. We meant to do read only. Fixing now

Looks fixed now

Re: Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt

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Post by livejamie »

jacquesc wrote: post #6
pibefision wrote: post #4

I like the idea. why comments are not public?

2 reasons initially: - prevent too much spam, moderation workload - encourage honest (harsh) feedback that the product owner can take action on. also if the same feedback comes in twice from 2 diff people, thats a great indicator. public comments do not allow that (since most people wont duplicate a comment if they already see someone else saying it)

Comments are one of the main ways you're going to foster a community.

An alternative would be to allow comments to be shown privately or to have a messaging/mail system.

Hiding them by default is a big mistake.

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