That case just becomes roughly functionally identical to what I suggested
Well, sure, if you’re just talking about the karma aspect.
Re. overall suggestion, you seem to have suggested another discussion board as a “catch-all” dumping ground for off-topic replies. I suggested that there’s probably some “canned” package that could be implemented like a user’s forum.
It comes down to whether separate forum areas would be helpful or not. If it’s “just another discussion board” with the rules you stipulated… sure, that works.
If you like the separate areas and like the functionality of a forum, then I find it odd that you would criticize an mere suggestion to give it the karma functionality you proposed, while at the same time adding quite a few more features that might improve the user’s experience.
If you don’t like the forum idea in general, then just say so and you don’t have to worry about discussing the sub-topic of it’s karma integration since the whole package is moot. If you do… then we need to brainstorm a way to implement karma support and I have gotten the ball rolling :)
Ok, point. I don’t really think there’d be enough traffic to justify several sections, but I could be wrong.
Your suggestion still need more gardening solutions thou.
You may be right—not sure on the traffic either. Nor what the various “forum rooms” would be… Family? Pictures? Trips taken? Who knows.
If (big if) some karma implementation could be done, it still might be feasible to do this without human intervention. For example, my user page is “http://lesswrong.com/user/jwhendy.” If everyone else’s is the same format… it’s as simple as:
requiring every user to sign up under their current LW name (perhaps password as well so someone can’t sign up under someone else’s user name)
That’d work perfectly except the part where you need to check if the put in the right password, yea. In fact, you’re starting to make me think your plan might be the better one after all, depending on a few implementation details of LW I don’t know about.
That case just becomes roughly functionally identical to what I suggested but with much more work for implementation and maintenance.
Well, sure, if you’re just talking about the karma aspect.
Re. overall suggestion, you seem to have suggested another discussion board as a “catch-all” dumping ground for off-topic replies. I suggested that there’s probably some “canned” package that could be implemented like a user’s forum.
It comes down to whether separate forum areas would be helpful or not. If it’s “just another discussion board” with the rules you stipulated… sure, that works.
If you like the separate areas and like the functionality of a forum, then I find it odd that you would criticize an mere suggestion to give it the karma functionality you proposed, while at the same time adding quite a few more features that might improve the user’s experience.
If you don’t like the forum idea in general, then just say so and you don’t have to worry about discussing the sub-topic of it’s karma integration since the whole package is moot. If you do… then we need to brainstorm a way to implement karma support and I have gotten the ball rolling :)
Ok, point. I don’t really think there’d be enough traffic to justify several sections, but I could be wrong. Your suggestion still need more gardening solutions thou.
You may be right—not sure on the traffic either. Nor what the various “forum rooms” would be… Family? Pictures? Trips taken? Who knows.
If (big if) some karma implementation could be done, it still might be feasible to do this without human intervention. For example, my user page is “http://lesswrong.com/user/jwhendy.” If everyone else’s is the same format… it’s as simple as:
requiring every user to sign up under their current LW name (perhaps password as well so someone can’t sign up under someone else’s user name)
use that url (http://lesswrong.com/user/user_name) and find the number in between: “###” (mine is currently: “417″
if > 100, continue, if < 100, reject and tell user to get 100 more points
Not too bad.
That’d work perfectly except the part where you need to check if the put in the right password, yea. In fact, you’re starting to make me think your plan might be the better one after all, depending on a few implementation details of LW I don’t know about.