Author: Andreas Herrmann
Date: 01:23:33 07/28/01
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On July 27, 2001 at 18:31:47, Peter McKenzie wrote: >First up, a disclaimer: I think CCC is cool and this post is in no way a >criticism of CCC or the people who run and/or use it. > >Anyways, I have a few ideas for improving CCC. But does CCC really need >improving? Well if you are sure we have reached online perfection, then you'd >better stop reading right now :-) > >Seriously, I think there are a number of reasons we should look at improving >CCC: > >- new features have emerged in online discussion forums that enhance usability. >Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/) being a good example. > >- over the years I think the volume of posts to CCC has increased, we need >better facilities to deal with this. > >My own motivation is that the chess programming discussions that used to be >relatively common now seem to be very rare. I suspect that part of this is >because the facilities of the board are not conducive to such discussions. > >In particular with the way this board works, the high volume of posts tend to >drown out interesting threads so that they are pushed to the bottom of the list >and often overlooked completely. Often, a thread which basically consists of 2 >or 3 people having a rapid fire conversation will fill up the screen. While I >don't have anything against these discussions, I do find it tedious searching >through them looking what what *I* am interested in. > >I'd like to see a system for classifying and sorting posts. I suggest a system >that allows members to vote on a particular post. There would be a list of >categories, and you would be able to vote to put a post in a particular >category. > >Some possible categories could be: > >- interesting post about chess programming >- interesting post about a match/tournament result >- interesting post containing chess analysis >- interesting post about moderation >- interesting off topic post >- interesting post, not covered by above topics >- uninteresting post >- post should be deleted by moderators >etc > >The board would then display a category (based on the voting) for each post in >its heading. Ideally there would be a way to sort threads by category too. > >OK, just a few ideas on a cold Saturday morning... > >cheers, >Peter I agree, mainly i am for a seperate "chess programming" thread or window. Andreas http://www.wbholmes.de
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