An exploration of how to make a new, productive online forum that improves the professional lives of its members.
https://chatgpt.com/share/683c0e22-e854-800b-ae9d-c89b2784b4ac
Selected points:
- Let users build recognizable profiles with credibility signals.
- Auto-generate a public user portfolio from high-quality posts.
- Stronger credibility signals come from traceable, structured, exportable proof of value, not just social likes. Make every user look like an author worth citing.
- Require public sponsorship by an existing user for a new user to join.
- Treat reputation as a slow-earned, high-stakes currency, not a social freebie. Make it traceable, limit its issuance, and watch the graph.
- Meta-Point: You’re not building a “forum.” You’re building a reputation graph with social context and visible lineage.
- Data Science is a good target field. Content-rich, collaborative, shareable, professionally helpful.