It seems like you're talking about two different things: a rating system
and a sorting system. I could see how both could be very useful.
Being able to rate posts on "quality", say from one to five, would be
nice (although there may be multiple gauges: quality, code provided,
applicableness and so forth). I think this is what Michael was talking
about.
Dana's point (it seems to me) is more about sorting/categorizing. This
would also be very useful - but perhaps moreso in the archive than in
the "live" feed. For CF Talk being able to label messages as "XML",
"bugs", "techniques", "third party tools", "general development", etc
would be nice. Threads would gain their identity from the messages in
them.
In other words you might have messages on XML that rate a 1 (poor) and
others that rate a 5 (great). You could search for only those that rate
high in a certain category. Also this would naturally (I think)
eliminate all of the "noise" that mailing lists generate ("me too"
messages and other general comments on topics that are not in-and-of
themselves useful for example).
The category system, in particular, would be useful to deal with those
rambling threads that change subject often: the subject rarely indicates
the actual topic after the first dozen or so posts. ;^)
Jim Davis
-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:53 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: testing again
not to overheat your brain when you are in creative mode, but I could
see a
voting system for gross - games - pets - happenings (for vacation/job
news
etc) - politics - wierdness..... it's all ot but for example if I know a
thread is all games I could skip it (for example), likewise someone who
isnt interested in politics might be interested in know ing what to
skip...
this stuff is not all that apparent from the topic, often.
Not that this is urgent :) Just tossing the idea out there since i had
it.
Dana
> specific list (not this one as all posts are OT)can be added.
>
> > nice to see someone else up trying to pull ideas out of their brain.
But
> > erm, what are you testing exactly?
> >
>
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