Author: Adam Oellermann
Date: 01:39:00 07/28/01
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On July 27, 2001 at 22:39:07, Pete Galati wrote: >On July 27, 2001 at 20:10:05, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >>Interesting, I had exactly the same idea as Mr. McKenzie a while ago and I >>believe its a good one. I thought of the "not many people will rate posts" >>problem but I believe it might still work since you could allow the poster >>himself to put his post into a category first. Then in 95% of all cases this >>will be the "correct" category already. If someone choses a wrong category >>enough people will be annoyed about seing it in the wrong category to vote it >>into the right one. > >Generally, if you don't remember to check a box to indicate a catagory, I don't >see that as a problem, it just wont get the immediate attention of people >who're looking for that catagory. If someone like Leonid would like to call >attention to the fact that he's got a position to analyze, then it's to his >advantage to check the appropriate box. > >Posible problem is arguements over which catagory something is actually in. >Another posible problem, people being deceptive about the catagory their subject >is actually in. That's going to cause an awful lot of annoyed people right >there, because when you take the time to open a post (this takes a considerable >amount of time in this place sometimes) and it turns out that the person who >posted the message was somewhat deceptive about what the subject was, people >won't take that very kindly. > >>The threats could be colored depending on the category and you should be allowed >>to aditionally filter certain categories altogether. >> >>Georg > >I LIKE that idea. I'm all in favor of anything that allows for better filters. > >Pete Another possible problem might be that some of the big threads seem to ramble over more than one topic/category. Perhaps it could be set up so that a message may be in more than one category. The voting idea could still be present; people who believe it is wrongly classified could vote it *out* of a category. I also think some kind of full-text search would be incredibly useful, although I understand the cost/dev time constraints which may apply. Regards Adam
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