Issue Tracking

[astrosnat]

From @pwdel:

The idea I have behind, "issue tracking," vs. "comments," is that ... often times on Manifold I have noticed that the same topic gets brought up again and again on comments on a long-ranging market. Sometimes the issue gets brought up repeatedly because you have new market participants who are just not familiar with the details of the market. Other times you have people attempting to, "get attention," and manipulate the market toward their price by just posting the same propaganda over and over again (whether that propaganda is useful or not).

Issue tracking would replace the comments with more of either a discussion-forum style listing with topic headers, or issues which could be pinned, and each issue could have its own discussion within it. So while people could of course gamify issues by myopically bringing up the same concepts across multiple issues, it would at least give the ability for users to sort for issues and information that they deem relevant from the start.

Issues that get more volume and comments might percolate up to the top whereas issues without as much volume might move downward. There might be a simple algorithm that simply ranks issues by sheer volume, or there might be an algorithm that ranks by recent volume.

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[astrosnat]

My take on issue tracking:

As a Manifold user I definitely find it annoying wading through repeat comments (and repeat markets). I like the idea of issue tracking as a discussion forum format + simple algorithm ranking by volume

These are perhaps things to add down the line, along with the ability for admins to remove spam