red22
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2009
- Messages
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I want to communicate with researchers and I'd rather do it in a forum environment than an email environment. So, I thought to myself, invite them over to Bluelight! But they'll probably be put off by having to register, make a username, and submit their email addresses. So here are two ideas:
Allow guests with links to private conversations to be allowed to contribute. Call it an open conversation. Instead of sending a PM to one or more people, I open a PM and anyone with the link can comment.
Better yet, allow a person to create an entire private forum, this way topics can be organized into seperate pages instead of just one continuous PM.
If you don't like the idea of letting guests post, here is an alternative:
Allow special invites that automatically give someone an account with a temporary username that they can change.
Your response may be that Bluelight just isn't the best match for this type of activity. If that's how you feel, do you have any suggestions for how I can quickly and freely (or at least cheaply) collaborate with researchers? reddit lets anyone create a subreddit, but reddit also has the damn account requirement, which may put people off. And reddit is now heavily gated; it's virtually impossible for newcomers to start using it: by default, new accounts can only post in useless communities (e.g. meme stuff) and only after an undisclosed amount of time/posts will the restriction be lifted from your account. And the crazy thing is that they don't even tell you that you're restricted. You can indeed post wherever you want, but your posts are only visible to you—you're shadow banned by default. …Unless this shadow behavior is just for flagged accounts, i.e. I discovered this when I made new accounts using a VPN after I was permabanned (for no reason) and all of those accounts were quickly banned, so maybe they were just targetting me from the get go. In any case, I want a situation where people can post on a forum where an account is not needed and that is not reddit.
Allow guests with links to private conversations to be allowed to contribute. Call it an open conversation. Instead of sending a PM to one or more people, I open a PM and anyone with the link can comment.
Better yet, allow a person to create an entire private forum, this way topics can be organized into seperate pages instead of just one continuous PM.
If you don't like the idea of letting guests post, here is an alternative:
Allow special invites that automatically give someone an account with a temporary username that they can change.
Your response may be that Bluelight just isn't the best match for this type of activity. If that's how you feel, do you have any suggestions for how I can quickly and freely (or at least cheaply) collaborate with researchers? reddit lets anyone create a subreddit, but reddit also has the damn account requirement, which may put people off. And reddit is now heavily gated; it's virtually impossible for newcomers to start using it: by default, new accounts can only post in useless communities (e.g. meme stuff) and only after an undisclosed amount of time/posts will the restriction be lifted from your account. And the crazy thing is that they don't even tell you that you're restricted. You can indeed post wherever you want, but your posts are only visible to you—you're shadow banned by default. …Unless this shadow behavior is just for flagged accounts, i.e. I discovered this when I made new accounts using a VPN after I was permabanned (for no reason) and all of those accounts were quickly banned, so maybe they were just targetting me from the get go. In any case, I want a situation where people can post on a forum where an account is not needed and that is not reddit.
