Enabling participation in an online community using visual machine-readable symbols

摘要

A facility for coordinating an online discussion is described. The facility receives an indication that a user has captured a machine-readable symbol encoding an identifier that identifies a particular online discussion. In response, the facility incorporates into an online forum that hosts this online discussion an indication that this user captured a symbol encoding an identifier that identifies this online discussion. Having captured the machine-readable symbol, the user may interact with the content associated with the identifier encoded in the machine-readable symbol. On capturing the machine-readable symbol, an advertisement related to the content associated with the identifier encoded in the machine-readable symbol may be displayed to the user.

主权项

1. A computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, if executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
capturing an image of a machine-readable symbol encoding a content item identifier, the content item identifier identifying a content item associated with a user of a plurality of users in a community, wherein the users of the community interact with one another regarding a plurality of content items available in the community; processing the captured image to discern the content item identifier encoded into the machine-readable symbol;
determining the content item associated with the content item identifier; and taking an action associated with the content item determined, wherein a user of the computing device interacts with another user of the community regarding the content item.