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?
That’s a good idea with the tags.
I think the only structure that I wouldn’t change is the conversation tree.
How would tags be created? From a list or just any word?
Any word would be better but would make filtering trickier.
I think the only advantage of subs over tags is that it spreads the moderation workload.
(There are other ways to moderate tho. Strange experimental voting and filtering )
Surely there is a center of research for this stuff somewhere. Actually that would make a good sub.