Ideas for a "quote tweet" or "bump" style behavior on OOC forums? (to feature/amplify/curate hidden discussions)
A lot of really interesting ideas get buried in the comments thread, or are hidden as a small aside within a larger post on some other topic.
E.g., last week in the authors’ group, while giving their new member intro, someone said something really killer about their launch plan, which really ought to be a high-value discussion on its own! But that discussion never happened since it was buried within an intro. Also here, there’s often amazing stuff deep in the discussion thread, whether a huge resource that deserves to be unpacked, or an interesting change of topic or new idea.
In my head, I really want something like a “quote tweet” behavior, where we can easily grab a piece of some other post, with credit, to bump it back up to a top level item discussion. Saying that, I guess retweets on twitter originally started as an emergent behavior (“RT @…”) rather than an explicitly supported one.
I might start trying to do it that way in the two groups and see if anyone else follows along… If so, any ideas on the correct format/structure/indicators of it? Any other misc. ideas or suggestions?
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Also feels that, if it caught on, might be easier for members to engage and contribute, where instead of having to post from scratch, they have a way of saying, "hey, this bit hidden in here is interesting to me, I'm flagging it up for discussion." Sort of a curatorial middle ground between lurking and posting.
Also just realized that it's (of course) possible to switch the default feed ordering from "most recent post" to "most recent activity", which might be another way to draw attention to the discussion, rather than just the original post. Hmm...
Maybe "latest posts" for anonymous logged out visitors (so they see the public bits as a traditional blog), and "latest activity" for logged in folks (so they can see recent discussion activity).
Update: I've made that change, so let's see how it feels ;)
I feel that creating a separate thread using the RT @ format would improve the visibility of the discussion. Let’s try that too.