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So [[Twitter]] seemed to get traction partly as a cult and partly as a shared public blackboard for other web apps. But Twitter is like a stack, right? Doesn't make much of a blackboard ... and, well, Wiki is more like an incestuous hash - lots of objects with references to each other. So ... | So [[Twitter]] seemed to get traction partly as a cult and partly as a shared public blackboard for other web apps. But Twitter is like a stack, right? Doesn't make much of a blackboard ... and, well, Wiki is more like an incestuous hash - lots of objects with references to each other. So ... | ||
| − | Let's consider a wiki whose pages can each contain nothing but one sentence. Or one link. In order to say something subtantial, [[People]] [[Would]] [[Use]] [[WikiWords]] [[For Almost Everything]]. Which would more incestuously intertwingle the content than ever before. Participants would have no choice but to continuously refactor. The meanings of some text would stabilize while others would oscillate or flutter chaotically ... | + | Let's consider a wiki whose pages can each contain nothing but one sentence. Or one link. In order to say something subtantial, [[People]] [[Would]] [[Use]] [[WikiWords]] [[For Almost Everything]]. Which would more incestuously intertwingle the content than ever before. Participants would have no choice but to continuously refactor. And they couldn't ThreadMess because a Thread requires at least two sentences. The meanings of some text would stabilize while others would oscillate or flutter chaotically ... |
As a simple spam filter, require the external content to fit some content guidelines - like that it has to backlink to the originating wiki page. 99.999% of spammers will never do that because heck, nothing would keep the page they backlinked to pointing to them. And any participating blog pages would rapidly morph under their text ... | As a simple spam filter, require the external content to fit some content guidelines - like that it has to backlink to the originating wiki page. 99.999% of spammers will never do that because heck, nothing would keep the page they backlinked to pointing to them. And any participating blog pages would rapidly morph under their text ... | ||
Revision as of 16:26, 8 June 2007
An idea for an engaging AboutUs WikiProcess. Maybe already been done?
So Twitter seemed to get traction partly as a cult and partly as a shared public blackboard for other web apps. But Twitter is like a stack, right? Doesn't make much of a blackboard ... and, well, Wiki is more like an incestuous hash - lots of objects with references to each other. So ...
Let's consider a wiki whose pages can each contain nothing but one sentence. Or one link. In order to say something subtantial, People Would Use WikiWords For Almost Everything. Which would more incestuously intertwingle the content than ever before. Participants would have no choice but to continuously refactor. And they couldn't ThreadMess because a Thread requires at least two sentences. The meanings of some text would stabilize while others would oscillate or flutter chaotically ...
As a simple spam filter, require the external content to fit some content guidelines - like that it has to backlink to the originating wiki page. 99.999% of spammers will never do that because heck, nothing would keep the page they backlinked to pointing to them. And any participating blog pages would rapidly morph under their text ...
Just Thinking Out Loud. Hey that'd be a better wikiname for this than TwittiWikker ...
Okay, you pile on the VC and I'll start hiring ex-googlers ;)
