From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought you could only upvote / downvote posts. Comments were just a thread, and whoever commented first was at the top.

    Hence why a lot of our early shitposting was just commenting “first” as soon as an interesting post when live.

    • @linearchaosEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      Yes, it didn’t re-sort by default. You can, however, hide based on score. so kinda?

      They also used to (maybe they still do) have meta-moderation where you could flag things as funny or insightful. I always considered that a nice touch but it didn’t allow sorting either. .