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		DanBC on Nov 25, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's the right way to do forums? Private news-servers (with strict community standards and moderation or after-moderation) is one method; although it's pretty tricky explaining it to most of your users and it's not fun to set up.

newobj on Nov 26, 2011 | [–]

Seems way too high friction. In my head I was questioning even requiring users to register w/ email addresses.

cultureulterior on Nov 25, 2011 | [–]

The disadvantage of usenet (which I love dearly) is that conversations are forced into a tree. Personally, I think a DAG would be a better shape.

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