Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Do users ever get deleted after a period of time? Author Message Analog #1 posted January 13, 2006 at 10:16pm (EST)   Well, I didn't log in for years, and here I am back. Then again, maybe some people would prefer that I had been deleted. Solololo wrote: > Think of it this way... if a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine > how much time you're saving by viewing a pic (as opposed to reading > 1,000 words ) Yes, but I'm on via modem. A picture takes longer to download than a thousand words.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Votes vs. comments Author Message Analog #2 posted October 15, 2000 at 10:02pm (EST)   Actually, if you used the [Yes,No] menu, you could make it default to [Yes] for essay questions, and [No] for non-essay questions. That'd probably get things right most of the time. OK. I think I'm done replying to myself for the moment. Analog #3 posted October 15, 2000 at 9:47pm (EST)   I can see a potential problem in non-essay surveys where someone leaves a comment from the voting screen which isn't really their vote. (I think this is less likely in essay surveys.) Still, it might be better to make this optional in some way, perhaps with a little two option menu that said ``Should this comment be marked as your vote? [Yes,No]'' Analog #4 posted October 15, 2000 at 9:35pm (EST)   Sometimes it's hard to tell whether a comment is someone's answer to the survey question, or a comment on the discussion taking place in the comments screen. This is especially so in essay-type surveys. I think it would be good if a comment left from the survey voting screen (using the <STRONG>vote</STRONG> and not the <STRONG>abstain</STRONG> button) was marked ``<EM>user</EM> votes,'' in much the way that replies are marked ``<EM>user1</EM> replies to <EM>user2</EM>.'' This would make it easier to distinguish people's votes in an essay-type survey from other comments they might leave which aren't their vote. It'd also be handy in non-essay surveys where people duplicate their votes in their comments. (This happened a lot in the recent ``how old are you'' survey, for instance.) One problem that would have to be handled would be how to mark old vote-comments when someone posts a second one (using ``change vote.'') Perhaps something like ``<EM>user</EM> votes (rescinded).''

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Reply feature Author Message Analog #5 posted October 15, 2000 at 9:10pm (EST)   Alternately, rather than putting a counter next to each comment, you could put a link next to each comment which lets you reply to that specific comment. The plus side of this is that users would not have to remember and match up (or even see) numbers in order to reply to a specific message. The minus side would be that the user would have to decide which comment they're replying to before editing the reply. I like the idea of being able to reply to a specific comment - especially when replying to anonymous users' comments. If this was implemented, it might also be possible to offer a threaded display of comments, too. This would be good for reading the responses to surveys where people start several simultaneous discussion threads.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: minor bug in qualification pages Author Message Analog #6 posted July 27, 2000 at 6:47pm (EST)   The little ``check box'' graphic under the number of ``reasonable'' votes for each survey seems to get checked (or not) depending on the survey's rating, not on the number of ``reasonables'' it haas received.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Qualification engine seized up? Author Message Analog #7 posted July 25, 2000 at 9:03pm (EST)   bill wrote: > To address the above problem, I have a hourly script that > runs 37 minutes after each hour. You'll note that your > first post was at 6:36... I have the most amazing timing sometimes. Analog #8 posted July 25, 2000 at 6:40pm (EST)   Oh brother. Apparently the 5+/0- survey was just waiting for me to post that comment before becoming active. The 6 HF survey is still in qualification, though. Probably it will disappear once I post this comment. Analog #9 posted July 25, 2000 at 6:36pm (EST)   At the moment there seem to be two surveys ``stuck'' in qualification. One has 5 reasonables, 0 needs works, and 24 hours in qual, and it hasn't become active. The other has 6 HF votes, but has not been deleted.

Forum: Site_Feedback Topic: Recent changes to qualification pages Author Message Analog #10 posted July 25, 2000 at 4:11pm (EST)   I notice that a survey has been voted ``hopelessly flawed!'' How does that work? Next page (only 10 shown here)