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Feb. 27th, 2008 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackSomething like earthquake posts (along with sprawling moral debates) is something where something between lj and news would be a useful interface.
Would it not be most useful if the first earthquake appeared on your friends-list (and was assigned a unique message id), but people could choose to post follow-ups (citing that id) that appeared as posts on the friends-lists of friends who hadn't seen the original, but as comments on that post for people who know both people?
Then everyone sees an "I felt an earthquake" post, with a list of comments, rather than at least one post per overlapping friends group. And, if a post has an ongoing discussion thread in response, you could de-tag it and make it standalone again.
Would it not be most useful if the first earthquake appeared on your friends-list (and was assigned a unique message id), but people could choose to post follow-ups (citing that id) that appeared as posts on the friends-lists of friends who hadn't seen the original, but as comments on that post for people who know both people?
Then everyone sees an "I felt an earthquake" post, with a list of comments, rather than at least one post per overlapping friends group. And, if a post has an ongoing discussion thread in response, you could de-tag it and make it standalone again.