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    I want to take a bigger whack at the design discussion vs. tangentially related to design or unrelated to design discussion topic. The whole debate feels very binary.

    I love public voice. It’s the main reason I’ve kept coming here. I prefer it to reddit. What get’s discussed here is organic to the community and it should stay that way. I’d like there to be more design related discussion; however, everyone saying that the folks who want that should just start the movement themselves by plunking down a topic themselves is 100% right.

    That doesn’t mean that PV couldn’t be improved and I think everyone suggesting things like ability to tag or filter discussions is on the right track. But seriously - PV is a democracy, the conversation will always gravitate towards what the majority wants.

    I think Public Choice needs the most attention. Promote it’s functionality in the overall design of the homepage and buff up it’s feature set. Editor’s Choice is always stagnant, and I tend not to mess with PC because a 30px thumbail and severely limited description isn’t enough to engage with. It was always a shitty design. Discussion of design (namely critique) will go up a ton if the right things are done here. And Public Voice can remain the lawless wild west it has always been. Full of porn, designers who need business advice, apple/android/flash/html5 fanboy flame wars and everything else we love about it.

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    • that's all fine and good but you'll not likely garner the attention of outsiders like this.SteveJobs
    • if all they see is porn, nsfw, * of the day, etc, ad nauseum, they won't take this site seriously much less contributeSteveJobs
    • it'll just breed and foster more of the same. i appreciate your point, but some communities benefit from moderation.SteveJobs
    • I won't object to moderation of threads like COTD, but non-design topics aren't bad..jtb26
    • Fair point.jtb26
    • So many threads are full of animated GIFs. How do you expect anyone to have a serious discussion when 95% of posts are irrelevantJaline
    • are irrelevant?Jaline
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