Show HN: Quetree – A Q&A site that is tree-based and hierarchical
Community building is the most noble project on the Internet, and this is a unique attempt to organize it further. Communities, not software or commerce or entertainment, is what the Internet was motivated from in the 90&#x27;s and will be the most remembered aspect in 50 years, so it is important to create experimental community harbors like these to possibly incubate future massive projects.<p>However, I am curious why you chose two features from which to derive your community software.<p>Voting: This has been demonstrated by major websites to form &quot;mob opinions&quot;, hide individuality, and discourage of unpopular&#x2F;unoriginal ideas. It is somewhat agreed by Hacker News members that voting should represent quality of comments. But as the size of a website approaches infinity (like Reddit, or Facebook comments with &quot;liking&quot;), this type of culture breaks down, so voting is eventually only used to game the system to promote comments that follow your personal opinion. Differing opinions are a beautiful aspect of humankind, and they are lost when a comment&#x27;s score is used to make it visible in an unequal manner to other comments. Additionally, voting has little correlation with the effort that goes into a comment. A one-word reply is just as likely to have the same score as a wiki-like hand-typed article and will therefore be artificially promoted to the same level. I believe that if you&#x27;re running an online news website, sure, absolutely promote &quot;top&quot; content. If it&#x27;s a community forum, give people an equal voice.<p>Threading&#x2F;hierarchy: Human conversation has not and will not change as a result of Internet community software. Hierarchy is unnatural, chronology is natural. If the goal of a community is to generate &quot;answers&quot; to &quot;questions&quot;, sometimes this unnatural feature is necessary, but use caution and don&#x27;t over-hierarchy-ize the organization. Having a &quot;Support&quot; and &quot;Not support&quot; feature like in your video demo adds to the paperwork of posting an answer while not offering much benefit, and it seems a bit O(n^2) to me.