http://www.glorum.com/message/125 2009-01-05T21:11:48+01:00 text/html 2007-03-05T11:37:28+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 The following are all forward thinking...software's probably not ready to discuss any of the following yet, but I thought I'd suggest them to offer some ways high-volume forums might want to be able to use this softtware. I've run very high volume forums since 1988, FWIW. 1. Option for other users (and/or admin) to be able to edit a posting's tags 2. create groups of users who can/can't vote...but leave interface identical for both (i.e., deactivate actual results of voting for troublemake text/html 2007-03-05T11:39:53+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 Also, create a page showing a reverse chron "news-ticker" of recent postings, so active users can catch up with what they've missed since last visit. text/html 2007-03-05T11:40:24+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 Also, allow users to self-edit postings (with admin-configurable time limit...and, for that matter, let admins edit without time limit). text/html 2007-03-05T12:00:08+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 wooops, the front page already does the "news ticker" requested above. This is an example where the ability to edit posts would help :) text/html 2007-03-17T03:36:55+01:00 http://www.glorum.com mario http://www.glorum.com/view/125 Thank you for the insights. I didn't reply soon but I did read this post 10 days ago. Posts (including tags) are now editable or deletable by the post's author or the 'admin' (currently me). [What would be the top reason for a time limit?] I would like to extend this to comments/replies. I understand what you mean about the karma thermometer and I have a similar view. My only concern is whether you would still have sufficient voting activity after hiding everything. text/html 2007-03-18T20:27:53+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 reason for limited editing window: 1. nervous nellies will edit into perpetuity 2. it's weird for a long thread with much quoteback to have an earlier post not say what the quoteback says 3. malcontents might zero out all their stuff when they stomp off in anger 4. potential for people to change what they previously said when losing an argument 5. evil stuff slipped in later (i.e. after moderators stopped paying attention). text/html 2007-03-18T20:29:47+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 If you hide the voting guts, super users vote disproportionately. This is, for most communities, a plus. But I can see not everyone want it that way, so I'd make that a config. Generally, the more features can be modularized, the better. Some sites like to load up with features (and the icons and stuff that come with), some like things smooth. Ruby'd be insanely great with this system. text/html 2007-03-18T20:32:40+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 If you won't allow other users to edit the OP's tags, can you let new tags be added in replies? Let such tags have fractional weight (i.e. the diammetrical opposite of super tags). I don't want all sorts of tag gaming to take place, but the very guts of this s/w is tagging, and tagging is about using the wisdom of the many, so I'm unhappy with how undistributed tagging decisions are. I could discuss this further...not sure how interested you are. text/html 2007-03-18T20:37:16+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 Front page is not a live ticker...I was wrong in my self-correction above. Please bear in mind that this s/w has serious potential, and will be used by hi-volume forums. For that reason, I'd suggest you be careful about bandwidth and other efficiency issues (especially re: search), but also think about user experience if there are several postings per minute. Such users want to know what's new...what they've missed since last visit. And most importantly, something none of the package message text/html 2007-03-18T20:39:46+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 Crap, now front page HAS bumped this thread. I did a full reload before, to no avail. Is the DB updating not instant? text/html 2007-03-19T06:16:58+01:00 http://www.glorum.com mario http://www.glorum.com/view/125 Maybe a bug. Let's see. Yes, my email is mariorizzuti yahoo.com. Thank you. text/html 2007-03-19T06:31:49+01:00 http://www.glorum.com mario http://www.glorum.com/view/125 Ideally the rating component will be very configurable, including being cleanly removed or easily converted to a more traditional moderation. About opening tags, I am very interested. Please continue. text/html 2007-03-19T10:48:46+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 ----- If you won't allow other users to edit the OP's tags, can you let new tags be added in replies? Let such tags have fractional weight (i.e. the diammetrical opposite of super tags). I don't want all sorts of tag gaming to take place, but the very guts of this s/w is tagging, and tagging is about using the wisdom of the many, so I'm unhappy with how undistributed tagging decisions are. ----- Just making sure everyone knows that "OP" means "original poster", or the person starting a text/html 2007-03-19T10:50:54+01:00 http://www.glorum.com Glorum_Golem http://www.glorum.com/view/125 typo correction: ----- Enabling high status respondents and onlookers to change or tag adding will also help ensure that digressions within a topic get tagged on the fly. ----- Enabling high status respondents and onlookers to change or ADD TAGGING will also help ensure that digressions within a topic get tagged on the fly. [please please enable post editing for respondents! :)]