100 characters a comment average. Including the Re:title, the User name, number, friend/foe, date and time, comment number, links to the title, user name, number, and friend/foe pages, javascript, css and other html? I just downloaded this page, and it's over 7 mb for 1,500 comments, which, according to your lame figuring, should be less than 150k.
You under-estimated by a factor of over 46. Hope you aren't responsible for designing anything (or implementing it for that matter).
As long as you can only moderate once per comment in a discussion, and you can't moderate your own comments, you should be able to post comments into discussions you've moderated. Anyone who wanted to get around that rule could simply make one or more sock puppets anyway.
No, you're making false assumption. I never said anything about the probability of heads (or tails) coming up 6 times in a row.
The question is, what are the probabilities of calling a coin toss correctly 6 times in a row. Each coin toss is a separate event that doesn't influence the one before it or the one after it.
The probability of calling it correctly is 50% for each toss. The odds of calling the toss 6 times in a row is.5 *.5 *.5 *.5 *.5 *.5, or 1/64.
But, wait: what if you are about to say "Well, if it had been Bernie that won six times in a row, I'd accept it as chance, but since it's Hillary, I am suspicious"? Wouldn't that be a reason to use one-tailed probabilities?
No. What you just did there was to insert your own bias. The whole point of statistics is to avoid bias.
A good rule is, if you can't decide if you should use two-tailed probability or one-tailed, always use two-tailed.
Total bullshit reasoning - I am not an American, so, like most of the world, I'm just kicking back and laughing at the stupidity of the American election process. The only bias here is yours - trying to troll for whatever reason you do.
It's easy enough to ignore APK, the GNAA and their greased-up yoda doll, goat links, and even the MOO guy if it bothers you that much. Yes, I've seen that "Slow down, Cowboy" message - but not in the last year or so. It may be a collision between someone else using the same ip (which would flag posting too quickly, and call up the "too quickly" code) and then doing the calculation to determine how long it's been since the last post, which would be a separate calculation that would be displayed.
Re: security - It's just a web forum, not your bank account. I'd file this under "nice to have", not "must have." There are other issues that should have more priority.
ISO-8859 (-1 or -15) 8-bit should be enough for almost everyone. It contains a lot of the accented characters other languages use, Makes storage, buffer sizes, etc. easier to calculate.
One thing I would add, is make visited links more of a contrast to non-visited links. This is a real PITA in the slashdot message center, etc.
That's the same as with regular stories. As I pointed out, people can put all the other ways to communicate directly with them in their info box. A messaging system is redundant. And you KNOW it will be abused.
The grammar and spelling errors are the fault of the submitter. You don't want to look stupid, proof-read your submission instead of just throwing it at the wall and hoping it will stick, and that someone will clean up after you.
Case in point - everyone continually complains about smart quotes appearing in submissions, but it only takes a few seconds to replace them with regular quotes. I've been doing this with submissions for quite a while. Maybe they should start rejecting submissions that have not been properly edited by the submitter.
You must really hate mobile users with a band cap if you want all comments shown by default.
Downmodding serves a purpose, and abuse is corrected by the
"intelligence of the herd." Besides, if you want all comments shown by default, you should also be browsing at -1. There's absolutely nothing to prevent the individual user making that choice - but it should remain a choice.
As for identifying moderators - your " If somebody's deemed responsible enough to moderate, then they should be willing to have their name attached to any and all moderation they do - by the same logic, you should have to be logged in to post any comment. Furthermore, by that logic, nicks or nyms shouldn't be allowed, but almost everyone hides behind a nym. And you're posting AC - hypocrite much?
"When it comes to abusive moderation, even one incident is one too many." - come off it. The perfect is the enemy of the good, and really, I've been mod-bombed, and you don't see me getting upset about it. It's just people expressing an opinion, not deciding as to whether to launch WW3.
Posting limits need to STAY. The quickest way to get fewer active users s to allow anyone to crap-flood. 30 posts in 4 hours and 50 posts a day is usually enough. Yes, it's frustrating to hit those limits when you have several heated discussions going on, but let's keep some perspective here - it's only the internet.
Moderation needs to STAY. It's one of the ways to keep users engaged.
Several of your points are so obviously detrimental that it's obvious you're just trolling.
Perhaps people should use their own intelligence to filter out the signal from the noise, rather than having everything curated for them - otherwise... well, for one, they'll never learn to distinguish signal from noise on their own - like the chemtrail conspiracy nuts.
How about adding readers who can spell correctly and understand English grammar while you're at it? There are more important worries...
Agreed on expanding the friends/foes list (or just a global limit ot be divided between the two - I could mark more friends because, as a matter of principle, I've decided not to foe anyone).
This is slashdot. Do you have any idea how many trolls would post crap in a bug tracker. There's a feedback link at the bottom of the page.
Better would be to allow people to comment in a discussion they've modded, so they can explain why, or if the discussion later on takes a more interesting turn.
The only way to really be authenticated is to have the site accept and verify personal identification to create an "authenticated account." That will really bring out the tin foil hat brigade.
Besides, most logged-in users are already anonymous cowards - your name isn't really MouseR, is it?
One person's trash is another person's gold. Even browsing at -1, the crap isn't bad enough to justify changing things. Sometimes "good enough" means what it says.
It IS sacrilege. While I'm comfortable posting under my name, others seek anonymity by using nyms, and others via AC. There's no real difference between the latter two.
1. WRT Unicode, the biggest problem is "smart quotes." The quickest solution to get rid of this annoyance is to use a regex to replace smart quotes with regular quotes. The rest can wait for more testing before rolling it out.
2. The current comment score cap works. It's less likely to promote group think as it can quickly be knocked back down or up without having an unreasonable distance to cover. People who worry about comment scores need to get over it - it's just a number. And if you're not browsing at -1, you're missing some good stuff that's gotten buried by the echo chamber. "It ain't broke, don't fix it."
3. Direct messaging? Are you kidding me? Promote use of journals more if you want to encourage inter-personal communications that might be off-topic in a discussion elsewhere. People can also put their email, skype, etc info in their profile if they really need interpersonal communications that are not public.
4. Reducing time between comments? That's only a concern if you have crap karma, and it's easy to go from zero to excellent in a few days, so anyone making any real contributions will quickly find this is not a problem.
5. Fix the color scheme that makes it almost impossible to see the link to the source of the article in the title bar. Go back to putting the link at the top or bottom of the story if it isn't already embedded.
6. Fix the mobile app on android. If you don't know what I'm referring to, try it for a while. You'll get the idea.
7. Do NOT allow inline display of images. Those of us who have already learned not to click on goat.se links don't need to be forced to see it again and again.
8. Get rid of the page between when you click on a link in your message list, and the actual message display. It's redundant.
9. It's not hard to allow people to append to their comments, with a time-stamped notice along the lines of "EDITED: 2016-12-24@whenever added the following" and then the new text. This way, nobody can change their original post, but they CAN correct it in the original place.
10. Increase the.sig length - even tweets are longer. People often use sigs to quickly identify other users (nobody looks at the user name).
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100 characters a comment average. Including the Re:title, the User name, number, friend/foe, date and time, comment number, links to the title, user name, number, and friend/foe pages, javascript, css and other html? I just downloaded this page, and it's over 7 mb for 1,500 comments, which, according to your lame figuring, should be less than 150k.
You under-estimated by a factor of over 46. Hope you aren't responsible for designing anything (or implementing it for that matter).
You might want to look up "smart phone".
Hillary was supposed to lobby both sides for a better health care law. Contrary to the claim of the poster I replied to, she utterly failed.
As long as you can only moderate once per comment in a discussion, and you can't moderate your own comments, you should be able to post comments into discussions you've moderated. Anyone who wanted to get around that rule could simply make one or more sock puppets anyway.
No, you're making false assumption. I never said anything about the probability of heads (or tails) coming up 6 times in a row.
The question is, what are the probabilities of calling a coin toss correctly 6 times in a row. Each coin toss is a separate event that doesn't influence the one before it or the one after it.
The probability of calling it correctly is 50% for each toss. The odds of calling the toss 6 times in a row is .5 * .5 * .5 * .5 * .5 * .5, or 1/64.
But, wait: what if you are about to say "Well, if it had been Bernie that won six times in a row, I'd accept it as chance, but since it's Hillary, I am suspicious"? Wouldn't that be a reason to use one-tailed probabilities?
No. What you just did there was to insert your own bias. The whole point of statistics is to avoid bias. A good rule is, if you can't decide if you should use two-tailed probability or one-tailed, always use two-tailed.
Total bullshit reasoning - I am not an American, so, like most of the world, I'm just kicking back and laughing at the stupidity of the American election process. The only bias here is yours - trying to troll for whatever reason you do.
Your "logic" is full of sh*t in this case.
It's easy enough to ignore APK, the GNAA and their greased-up yoda doll, goat links, and even the MOO guy if it bothers you that much. Yes, I've seen that "Slow down, Cowboy" message - but not in the last year or so. It may be a collision between someone else using the same ip (which would flag posting too quickly, and call up the "too quickly" code) and then doing the calculation to determine how long it's been since the last post, which would be a separate calculation that would be displayed.
Re: security - It's just a web forum, not your bank account. I'd file this under "nice to have", not "must have." There are other issues that should have more priority.
ISO-8859 (-1 or -15) 8-bit should be enough for almost everyone. It contains a lot of the accented characters other languages use, Makes storage, buffer sizes, etc. easier to calculate.
One thing I would add, is make visited links more of a contrast to non-visited links. This is a real PITA in the slashdot message center, etc.
That's the same as with regular stories. As I pointed out, people can put all the other ways to communicate directly with them in their info box. A messaging system is redundant. And you KNOW it will be abused.
The grammar and spelling errors are the fault of the submitter. You don't want to look stupid, proof-read your submission instead of just throwing it at the wall and hoping it will stick, and that someone will clean up after you.
Case in point - everyone continually complains about smart quotes appearing in submissions, but it only takes a few seconds to replace them with regular quotes. I've been doing this with submissions for quite a while. Maybe they should start rejecting submissions that have not been properly edited by the submitter.
What does that have do do with making anonymous posts default to +1? Oh, nothing. Nice troll from another AC.
I've done worse (much worse) :-) But then again, I'm evil .... ;-)
The AC is a troll, as I pointed out previously.
You must really hate mobile users with a band cap if you want all comments shown by default.
Downmodding serves a purpose, and abuse is corrected by the "intelligence of the herd." Besides, if you want all comments shown by default, you should also be browsing at -1. There's absolutely nothing to prevent the individual user making that choice - but it should remain a choice.
As for identifying moderators - your " If somebody's deemed responsible enough to moderate, then they should be willing to have their name attached to any and all moderation they do - by the same logic, you should have to be logged in to post any comment. Furthermore, by that logic, nicks or nyms shouldn't be allowed, but almost everyone hides behind a nym. And you're posting AC - hypocrite much?
"When it comes to abusive moderation, even one incident is one too many." - come off it. The perfect is the enemy of the good, and really, I've been mod-bombed, and you don't see me getting upset about it. It's just people expressing an opinion, not deciding as to whether to launch WW3.
Posting limits need to STAY. The quickest way to get fewer active users s to allow anyone to crap-flood. 30 posts in 4 hours and 50 posts a day is usually enough. Yes, it's frustrating to hit those limits when you have several heated discussions going on, but let's keep some perspective here - it's only the internet.
Moderation needs to STAY. It's one of the ways to keep users engaged.
Several of your points are so obviously detrimental that it's obvious you're just trolling.
Everybody's been trying to get the mythical +5 Troll (it was possible, but extremely rare, years ago).
Perhaps people should use their own intelligence to filter out the signal from the noise, rather than having everything curated for them - otherwise ... well, for one, they'll never learn to distinguish signal from noise on their own - like the chemtrail conspiracy nuts.
How about adding readers who can spell correctly and understand English grammar while you're at it? There are more important worries ...
Agreed on expanding the friends/foes list (or just a global limit ot be divided between the two - I could mark more friends because, as a matter of principle, I've decided not to foe anyone).
This is slashdot. Do you have any idea how many trolls would post crap in a bug tracker. There's a feedback link at the bottom of the page.
Better would be to allow people to comment in a discussion they've modded, so they can explain why, or if the discussion later on takes a more interesting turn.
^^^^ THIS ^^^^
The only way to really be authenticated is to have the site accept and verify personal identification to create an "authenticated account." That will really bring out the tin foil hat brigade.
Besides, most logged-in users are already anonymous cowards - your name isn't really MouseR, is it?
One person's trash is another person's gold. Even browsing at -1, the crap isn't bad enough to justify changing things. Sometimes "good enough" means what it says.
Why make AC posts as +1. If you say something but you're too much of a coward to stand behind it, you deserve less visibility.
Ahhh, those were the days :-)
It IS sacrilege. While I'm comfortable posting under my name, others seek anonymity by using nyms, and others via AC. There's no real difference between the latter two.
Beta still exists? And worse, you're still seeing it? Both slashdot and you are doing it wrong :-)
Trolls have always been an integral part of slashdot, and part of the "uncensored" appeal of the site. "First they came for the trolls ..."
1. WRT Unicode, the biggest problem is "smart quotes." The quickest solution to get rid of this annoyance is to use a regex to replace smart quotes with regular quotes. The rest can wait for more testing before rolling it out.
2. The current comment score cap works. It's less likely to promote group think as it can quickly be knocked back down or up without having an unreasonable distance to cover. People who worry about comment scores need to get over it - it's just a number. And if you're not browsing at -1, you're missing some good stuff that's gotten buried by the echo chamber. "It ain't broke, don't fix it."
3. Direct messaging? Are you kidding me? Promote use of journals more if you want to encourage inter-personal communications that might be off-topic in a discussion elsewhere. People can also put their email, skype, etc info in their profile if they really need interpersonal communications that are not public.
4. Reducing time between comments? That's only a concern if you have crap karma, and it's easy to go from zero to excellent in a few days, so anyone making any real contributions will quickly find this is not a problem.
5. Fix the color scheme that makes it almost impossible to see the link to the source of the article in the title bar. Go back to putting the link at the top or bottom of the story if it isn't already embedded.
6. Fix the mobile app on android. If you don't know what I'm referring to, try it for a while. You'll get the idea.
7. Do NOT allow inline display of images. Those of us who have already learned not to click on goat.se links don't need to be forced to see it again and again.
8. Get rid of the page between when you click on a link in your message list, and the actual message display. It's redundant.
9. It's not hard to allow people to append to their comments, with a time-stamped notice along the lines of "EDITED: 2016-12-24@whenever added the following" and then the new text. This way, nobody can change their original post, but they CAN correct it in the original place.
10. Increase the .sig length - even tweets are longer. People often use sigs to quickly identify other users (nobody looks at the user name).