The unique and succinct interface
- Hierarchical sub-forums and access control for each one
Without the limit of dimension or depth.
- A discussion board is naturally a user group, where the group members are particularly privileged.
Other roles on the board are guests, identified visitors, and dominant members.
- A real-time Popularity Degrees in intuitive colors for each folder and post.
It rises with boosts and drops with the lapse of time.
- Pop-up menu of Smiley Marking
Stamp any post with smileys, to visualize your feelings and to impact its destiny.
Figure 1. A thread list page of a discussion board, the archives of Metaphysical Review
Figure 2. Also on thread list page: thread collapsing and expanding, pop-up menu of smileys
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Approach to the collective harmony and collective intelligence
- How it is possible:
There exist some natural decentralized systems, where no personalized authority governs
and the swarm of all selfish individuals result in a sustaining collective harmony and
collective intelligence.
Such a harmony and intelligence may not rely on (but be better with) the
civic-mind and wisdom of any individual, and even it functions without
the people's awareness of how what they do are sustainting the whole.
Think of the case of "invisible hand", where all buyers and
sellers are just concerning about their own benefits.
- VivBoard's approach:
- Gatherings of identities emerge around various topics or threads:
leaded by the real-time minings, unformed, can automatically split, join up,
or evanesce, just like what happens in a real crowd;
- Isolation mechanism from the emergent gatherings:
unwelcomed gatherings will be mostly expelled from the public
sight, and need time to recover;
- To suppress the convergence of opinions:
great encouragement for betting that your uninfluenced opinion will be widely followed;
- To protect the minorities and grassroots:
great encouragement for hunting for a tomorrow's focus or a tomorrow's star.
- Anticipating for the e-Community version of
Collective Intelligence:
With thousands or even millions participants, to be much wise, to bring great fairness
and much opportunity, to save people from the flood of information, and to provide
the best compliance between efficient governance and maximum freedom.
Contact
- Please feel free to post any comment, question, advice and bug report on the
Support and Sample Board, or
- Mail to develop@vivboard.net
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