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The comments are stored in metadocs servers.

There's a service worker in the background that does quite a bit of the heavy lifting. So, it can't be a pure JS script.

Thanks for the comment. It was quite insightful.

I don't have any prior moderation experience, so I plan on taking up the task myself initially to get a good grasp of the challenge. That way I can build good tools to make the task easier.

So this is not a problem I've solved yet. But I think the solution would involve a mix of community voting and good sorting algorithms.

But I'll only know the correct solution once I start tackling it.

Yup, there most definitely will be. Hoping to do it within the next few months.

Yup. The code was written with portability in mind. As soon as I get time to test it on Firefox I'll do it.

I haven't thought about that direction yet, although I am aware of discourse and disqus.

Metadocs is pretty young, so I'll think about it.

It's hard to articulate the problem like that.

So I was going through a documentation of an ORM library for another project of mine, and it was kinda poorly written. And I didn't feel like going through the effort required to go to another website and ask questions there. I thought I wish I could ask questions right here.

So I took that feeling and turned it into something tangible.

Lots of problems to be solved yet. Moderating 10 comments / day is very different from moderating 10k/day which in turn is different from millions a day.

I'll initially start by moderating comments myself, (need to create a policy first) and see what to do from there.

Yeah, cold start and moderation are two problems I need to solve.

I'm focusing on documentation pages at first hoping to build a commpunity that is helpful. Like pointing out pitfalls and better solutions to existing problems.

Also I used to be a stumbleupon user too. I don't remember the discuss feature, but I remember using it to find hidden gems of the web.

Yeah, I need better onboarding. Will fix.

And many people saw this post but didn't upvote as they were just lurking.