Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:18:26 03/14/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 12:04:33, José Carlos wrote: > When I have little time to read CCC, I usually look for programming-related >posts. I can only do this by the author or subject, but it's difficult anyway. > I suppose other pleople have other preferences, and many many people is not >interested in programming at all. > So I suggest that every posts has a 'type', that can be marked (in an option >box, for example) when creating it. > By default, every new post (new thread) would have checked the option >'general' unless the author changes it. > Follow-up would inherit from its parent, but could be changed if the thread >turns into a different argument. > Finally, filters would have the possibility to chose one or more type (or >'all-types'). > > My suggested types: > > - General : default > - Programming : for crazy people like me :) > - Tests : positions, results, tournaments... > - CCC : moderation posts, elections, suggestions like this... > - Announcements : where programmers/companies can announce releases or >patches > - Off topics : why not? sometimes they're interesting... > - New paradigms : just joking :) > > This could hardly bother anyone, because default options would make it work >exactly as it works right now. > > Opinions? > > José C. My eyeball, combined with my brain, constitutes an intelligent system that does a good job of this now. Your solution requires people to be less lazy than they typically are. It is unlikely that this will happen. So unless you want to miss something, you need to turn off these categories and do things they way they are done now. This problem exists on eBay. eBay has specific categories that can be assigned to items by sellers, but sellers often mis-categorize their items, and in order to find these mis-categorized items, you have to search categories that are more general than you'd expect. bruce
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