On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:23:41 -0800, "Diwaker Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] > IMHO, the best solution is to setup a blog. There are several free > Wordpress based blog services. There are several free Wordpress > plugins to implement rating for posts, most popular posts and such. > Commenting is built in. The more I think about it, the more it seems > like the perfect solution to me. Thoughts?
I think blog does not quite work. One would have to consider an ultimate goal - provide a collection of "accessible" and "maintainable" tips to ease people's interaction with a wonderful yet nightmarishly-complicated vim editor :) There are tasks towards that goal: - reducing spam (to enable 'accessibility') in a non-burdernsome way (to enable maintainability) - enable ratings (acessibility) - format (yet again, accessibility) - maybe i am missing something here - This is why I argue that notion of commenting runs a bit counter to the goal of accessibility for the tips. It requires one to read through the tip, then go on to read what other people are saying about the tip. Why would not those other people just edit the tip directly? There are administrators to prevent absurdity from ensuing (witness, for example, the Scooter Libby page on wikipedia) You bring up a good point about a problem with rating tips though. I am not sure how to solve that with a wiki. Frankly, I am not even sure (yet) whether it is an important task that needs to be solved. Does this enable more accessible tips? Maybe. (maybe something along the 'digg' lines?) There must be a way to host a digg/reddit-like thing on sourceforge, and put a little "dugg N times" thing on the page, and then a link to search. Especially if this is a non-essential thing, we could probably afford to host it on a less reliable infrastructure? anyway, these are just my thoughts on the matter. I am sure there are people who are much more qualified who can comment. -denis
