[IronicDeadBird]

HERE WE GO!

Originally Posted by TimTheGreat

You don't downvote because you disagree, you downvote "bad" posts. Like if someone posted a photo of a cat, you'd downvote that, not because you don't like the photo, but because it serves no purpose to FRC.

What I find insanely helpful about Chief Delphi is how easy it is for you to look at the quality of the poster. In this manner if I see a certain name next to a post I don't need to do a lot of digging and question or call out for citation to know its fairly trust worthy. You don't get mad green bars by posting cats on here its from HELPFUL INFORMATION or FANTASTIC MEASURES OF CHARACTER in this manner it is fairly accurate cause the standard for receiving this praise is high and the way it scales is done in a very smart manner.

Originally Posted by TimTheGreat

My opinion has definitely been swayed away from reddit, but I must ask the question "Is it possible that CD will improve its discussion format, at least in terms of replying to user posts?" Having a reddit-like reply where it becomes a discussion within the original comment

Comment A

Reply B

Reply C

would be improvement enough IMO.

That format of commenting has this insane ability to make it easy to take a broad topic and filter out information. Comment A would be something worth noting and reply b and c are added onto it and it helps "control" the de-railing of a Thread. This being said I find it a very simple and intuitive way to streamline the process of finding relevant information.
But that is never what I want from this site. When I come on chief delphi I come in to start a fire (well not like a complete forest fire) but I want to fuel some thought and get some nice conversation going. A lot of emphasis on chief delphi goes into people not digressing which may for all I know just be coincidental. From my experience once you have the start of something in Reddits format it quickly breaks down to these side conversations based on random trains of thought but when I go on chief delphi when I say "I think there should be a mobile safety zone in this years game because of x, y, or z, then I know that due to the format of chief delphi what I will get is a discussion not side chatter about different points. Hope that makes sense!