Will there be a way on the new site to see who's online?
by Newborn 12 Replies latest jw friends
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Simon
Eventually, yes ... but not until I update the profile options to allow people to turn that off (for privacy reasons).
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SnakesInTheTower
<===== What are those little square squigglies?
are you keeping the posting count with its ranking (and restoring the ranking system back to where it was) or scrapping the ranking (jedi, supreme one, etc?)
Snakes ()
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Simon
At the moment, I'm leaning more towards scrapping the pure 'I posted n number of posts so that makes me an x' as this is a very crude measure of people's input to the site.
I'm hoping that a reputation system where people can put value on what people post will reward those who make very useful contributions but without necessarilly making a huge numbe of posts.
It will also make it easier to promote 'the best topics' and highlight the most useful replies and at the same time reduce the impact of spam or abusive posts.
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Newborn
Ok, thanks Simon
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aligot ripounsous
reputation system
Simon, don't you fear that this system will open the way to lynching or, conversely, to cheap popularity ? IMO former JWs should be, more than others, wary of crowd effects.
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caliber
Dear Simon,
I notice when I signed up on JWN that everyone else got that IP design by their avatar except me and" Granny" it is blank
just an open blank square. The wife (H40) and I on on a hub system with our computers...what's up ? Just wondering ???
Caliber
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Simon
Simon, don't you fear that this system will open the way to lynching or, conversely, to cheap popularity ? IMO former JWs should be, more than others, wary of crowd effects.
Every reputation system will be subject to people trying to 'game' the system which is why there will be some system of review and checks.
Also, it will check for patterns of voting so that anyone trying to retaliate against a specific poster buy rating all their posts negatively or, alternatively, getting people to rate all their posts highly will fail in their attempts (and be severely negatively rated because of it).
I've bene thinking about this for quite some time and doing a lot of research on it and think I can develop something that will work and work well so that people are confident in it and also keen to rate topics that they feel strongly about (both positively and negatively).
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Simon
I notice when I signed up on JWN that everyone else got that IP design by their avatar except me and" Granny" it is blank - just an open blank square. The wife (H40) and I on on a hub system with our computers...what's up ? Just wondering ???
I can see yours fine ... it could just be a caching or rendering issue but I'll look into it just in case although it isn't a high priority as it's more of a cosmetic thing.
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Satanus
If the popularity thing works good, maybe something like it could be used to control who's running countries; the pres'/prime minister's popularity get too low, he automatically gets displaced by some someone else;)
S