On 2/2/15, Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de> wrote:
Unfortunately, I have a different opinion about that one. Text-based communication tends to be very chaotic and moderating is neither improve productivity nor is there a good way to actually do this.
While IRC works great for up to three people, 10 people writing all at once is asking for trouble.
I can suggest using some forum engine that supports tree structure of posts. I know at least one example of such forum and it's designed for fast-paced discussions (like in IRC) but tree structure helps to avoid chaos. From the first glance it looks like archive of mailing list but there's simple rule that makes difference: messages are grouped by thread ID instead of "Subject" field and if your message is short enough, you should put it into "Subject" field and leave body of message empty.
Slashdot may be a well known example of such approach.