I've been thinking about a related thing since I've come back, and found some intriguing new paradigms active on the site, like #824642 and #822572.

I've only begun the process of re-inventing how I want to inhabit this place, but there's something very powerful in how people have started to add higher layers of structure to existing SN content, so that the past is not dead, or inert, but present with us. Meaning emerges. This post of yours that I'm responding to is another lovely example of that -- callbacks, adding layers of interpretation, keeping things alive.

It's been clear for a while that not everyone values this quality -- some people just want an aggregated news site and nothing else -- but if you are looking for that, it's damn hard to find. The incentives of The Platforms don't encourage it. SN, on the other hand, has some interesting tools to bring to bear to encourage such a thing. I wonder if there's some aspect of the V4V story that intersects with this idea?