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Re: Usenet & the origins of social exchange on the Internet

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RS Wood wrote:

>It points out early newsreaders were unthreaded
It's actually threading that is the biggest advantage usenet has over other  
mediums. As I put in a blog post [1]:

>One major difference is that on blogs messages are typically shown in a  
>chronological list, but on usenet they are shown in a threaded tree-view. So  
>on blogs thread drift is intrusive because you read every message, but  
>usenet clients let you collapse or ignore sub-threads. While topic drift is  
>a problem on blogs it's a feature on usenet. This is the main reason threads  
>are longer on usenet - its not unusual for threads to reach 500+ messages  
>(the longest are typically 1000+).
>
>This changes the quality of the discussion: involved, detailed debates are  
>common and, while flame wars occur, they are easier to ignore; leading to a  
>more civilised and slower debate.
>There are a few web forums that do allow highly nested threads and let you  
>collapse them - namely Slashdot, Reddit, and Hackernews - and these are  
>among the most popular on the web.
Ironically the web has few threads, and usenetters will eventually cease  
"musing, venturing, throwing".



[1] http://squte.com/whats-wrong-with-blogs
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Usenet & the origins of social exchange on the Internet RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-09-01 20:04 +0000
  Re: Usenet & the origins of social exchange on the Internet Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-09-01 21:11 -0400
  Re: Usenet & the origins of social exchange on the Internet "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-09-05 11:57 -0500

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