This will be helpful for us to answer, particularly in figuring out what we’re trying to build. Based on what I’ve seen in the various MVP threads around and in Discord, this is what we’re aiming for:
- Types of first posts: Questions. This may be expanded later on, but we are designing for questions; if that can be adapted after community feedback, great, but that’s not what we’re designing for.
- Types of subsequent posts allowed: Answers, of any length. Secondarily, “feedback” - the equivalent of comments, but yet to be fully hammered out.
- Reputation/karma: Scalar and vector values. There is reasonable consensus that we should have some form of overarching karma value, as with reputation on SE. There is also reasonable consensus (same thread, and this other one) that privileges should be tied to related activities rather than to the central number.
- Reputation display: Will be decided as part of specification.
- Reputation economy: Inflationary.
- Moderation transparency: High. We’re here because we’re not satisfied with how opaque SE is being.
- Use of AI for moderation: Will likely be required as communities grow, but is not MVP.
- Interaction with RL economy: Likely to be disallowed. Hasn’t been discussed, but I strongly suspect folks will feel it undermines the quality control aspect of voting. We’re still not a social network.
- Attention management: Voting + time, at least. Voting represents quality control, which is good signal; time decay is almost inevitable as more posts are created. There may be other methods introduced later, but they are probably not MVP.
- Community size: Depends where you look. Overall, greater than Dunbar’s number. The overall community will fractalize and create many smaller communities around a central thing.
- Editing privileges: At least OP + mods + privileged users. We’re building a knowledge repository; wide editing is required. Extending this to everybody (a la suggested edits) has been considered, but is not MVP.
- Necroposting restrictions: Allowed. See “knowledge repository” - knowledge doesn’t have a timeline.
- Images in posts: Allowed. No restrictions on new users have yet been proposed, but may be necessary after MVP.
- Duplicates: Linked, to start with. May transition towards hunting with introduction of review after MVP.
- Information retention: Absolute, excepting extreme cases or legal requirements. Post history will not be modifiable by regular users; moderators may be granted the ability to redact after MVP, leaving a log of the redaction visible to moderators.
This is the start of a specification. There are, as you say, more dimensions and features to spec, but this is a good high-level overview.