Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
just as nested comments on reddit is a revolutionary change to traditional internet forums.
Uh, Reddit hardly created the idea of nested comments. You can go back to usenet or Prodigy/Compuserve in the 90s and find nested conversations. Slashdot did it, Daily Kos did it, shit, even the old school VN Boards did it.
Unless I misunderstand your point?
I do think reddit was the one that popularized it though, maybe it would be more accurate to say “combination of nested comments and vote based instead of time based sorting”?
I mean, here’s a Slashdot thread from 2005 (https://web.archive.org/web/20020923232012/http://slashdot.org/articles/02/09/10/0517248.shtml?tid=134) from archive.org showing not only voting, but nested comments.
Slashdot’s “voting” was a little less direct and focused on using what it called “moderation” to keep content on the site relevant. I found the write-up, still pretty much unchanged, here.
Here’s a 2004 thread article from kos with straight up reddit-like voting, not only showing the cumulative score but the # of votes, too.
Reddit was founded in 2005.
