Abstract
Traditional linear, time-ordered discussion threads cause three deeply interconnected structural problems in online forums:
- sedimentation of valuable content (both inside threads and across the forum),
- thread hijacking / topic drift, and
- structural harassment through off-topic flooding.
These problems are not primarily caused by malicious users but are inevitable by-products of forcing all discussion into a single chronological pipe.
This article fully discloses a complete architectural solution: a content- centric, modular discussion platform (the “content-pool model”) in which every contribution is an independent, semantically linked unit equipped with structured metadata fields. By completely removing the linear thread and replacing it with an AI-supported, graph-based network of contributions, all three problems are eliminated at the root level while preserving open, multi-user, general-purpose discussion.
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Recommended Citation
Ojala, Nikolas, "A Content-Centric Discussion Platform", Technical Disclosure Commons, (December 09, 2025)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/8999