The thing I miss about Usenet is maintaining article and comment scoring in trn (based on the subject, keywords and/or author)
With this I could easily surface interesting articles or replies by insightful people, while avoiding subjects and authors in which I had no interest.
This worked at a thread level, so I could quickly see any new threads, and new replies added to threads I was following, skipping over everything I had already marked as read.
For me this was more effective than the communal post scoring that took over on web forums, reddit, hn etc.
With this I could easily surface interesting articles or replies by insightful people, while avoiding subjects and authors in which I had no interest.
This worked at a thread level, so I could quickly see any new threads, and new replies added to threads I was following, skipping over everything I had already marked as read.
For me this was more effective than the communal post scoring that took over on web forums, reddit, hn etc.