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[danxoneil]

This is the heart of the difference between openblock and everyblock. The immense amount of work on this amounts to a series of design patterns for civil discussion around a place. EveryBlock Designer Sandor Weisz has led the development on this, aided in large part by a team of Community Managers led by Becca Martin. They deserve a lot of credit for thinking this through, and it is a large part of the legacy of EveryBlock.

In order for this bug report to be useful, it should probably be broken out into smaller chunks. Here is an attempt at describing all of them in one swag:

Ability for a user to create a news item. Include the ability to “mute”/ hide any post or user as well as the ability to see the users who are following an area to which you are posting. Includes the ability to attach a photo in a post and to share a post via Twitter or Facebook. Include the ability to make any post an “event”, with a time and place, and to publish it to the proper place in the Events section. Includes the ability to preview any post before publishing. Also includes the ability for any user to flag a post as great (“Thanks”) or not great (“Unneighborly”). Also include the ability to group posts into categories. Also allows any user to turn any post into an advertisement. Here are relevant posts from the EveryBlock blog relating to this feature:

2010 Jan 7 New feature: Notify your neighbors
2011 Apr 12 Who reads your neighbor messages?
2011 Apr 18 New feature: Mute button
2011 Jul 13 New features: Photo uploads, social sharing and more
2011 Sep 26 New feature: Mute users
2012 Jan 18 Introducing events
2012 Jan 30 Introducing comment preview
2012 Jun 11 The latest about ‘no thanks’
2012 Aug 20 Neighbor message categories
2013 Jan 7 Advertise your business on EveryBlock