Comments on: How Software Affects Behaviour

By: The Other Tim Hall

The Other Tim Hall — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:48:11 +0000

Podcasts are good when decorating, I find…and there’s been a lot of that in the last few years . StackExchange/Overflow are vg in many respects – and successful for it. Not familiar with Ello, so can’t comment.

If you’d like to read some text (!) about where this has got to, here’s a couple of (IMO) good articles from Attwood on what he’s doing with Discourse.
- http://blog.codinghorror.com/what-if-we-could-weaponize-empathy/
- http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-2/

By: Tim Hall

Tim Hall — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:32:26 +0000

I’m really not into podcasts (I’d rather read text and listen to music!), but I do remember Joel Spolsky blogging about issues like that.

Don’t frequent Stack Exchange, so I don’t know how successful it was. I assume he avoided ello’s basic schoolboy errors.

By: The Other Tim Hall

The Other Tim Hall — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 20:27:28 +0000

I was strongly inspired – as well as made to think very hard – by listening to Joel Spolsky & Jeff Atwood’s series of podcasts during the time they were building StackOverflow/StackExchange – the extent to which they considered very carefully community behaviour & how to (try to) create relatively well-behaved spaces. Ditto what Jeff is now doing with Discourse. Key lesson from all of this is – it’s hard, and it’s extremely easy to get wrong… eg Tumblr…