Ted Gould
Reading what I can about the trending hashtags discussion and it strikes me that different folks have different expectations and uses of social networking. Some folks want their posts to push out into the full network while others want them more local.
It seems to me that this stems from what you expect will happen from a new random interaction. Some believe that it will increase their influence on the world. Others believe that it will increase the amount of harassment they face.
Ted Gould
What I get from that debate is that any type of tool that looks to promote posts or give activity on the network needs to take that into account. People need, admins need, to be able to specify how their instances interact with the network.
Some communities may actually be all marketing people, we shouldn't discount them. But others want a more conservative reach and to reduce the speed which new users move into the network.
Designing those knobs is the tricky part.
Ted Gould
The hard part is always ideas, but trying one. Here is a setting that I think would be useful for controlling how fast the outside world comes into a community. Thoughts?
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