I'm a developer on comp-hist, and we can use all the help we can get!! Even a few computer historians who want to donate some time and energy would be greatly appreciated by the project!
????? No , no, no! People need to see their karma, even if they can't really consiously change it. A person who knows that they aren't a moderator because they have a negative karma value will be more motivated to stop (flaming, wasting people's time, etc.) if they can see the result of their effort to clean up their act. And it's only a race if you make it one. If you want it to be a race, then go to everyone's User Info page and compare it to yours. Then, YOU will make it feel like a race to the top of the Slashdot Karma Chart! (if there is one) As far as not showing points, moderators have a right to know what other moderator's opinions are. I'm not saying that moderators should be able to moderate and post in the same discussion, though. A moderator who has "slipped" through the moderator selection process and really shouldn't be one should still have some idea as to how to moderate the posts in any discussion, just by looking at point values. Still, their changes would get metamoderated as "unfair", they'd run out of points, and probably not become a moderator again in the near future.
Yes! - but, doesn't the shape matter? I'm sure some people, especially people who want square, beige boxes on their desks, don't like Apple's current designs. But can't that change? Who says that the world can't adapt to rounder shapes, and more colorful designs? I think we need to wait, and see where the world goes as far as computer design is concerned. I, for one, like my iMac in Bondi Blue, and haven't looked back since switching to a more colorful, rounded computer, and as more peripherals come out in colors, it will become harder and harder to resist the overwhelming pressure to buy products that come in colors.
It's not just computers, too. There are numerous other products now on the market that come in colors.
Colors are here to stay, and there's no way to stop them!
No, it's necessary, to keep moderators in the real world, and keep posts that should be moderated up up, and vice versa. Yet, that still doesn't alleviate the need for more points to be circulating, which is helped by the karma system.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm another developer on comp-hist, and we've begun to integrate this tree and a few others. If you've got interesting info, please drop us a line!
I'm a developer on comp-hist, and we can use all the help we can get!! Even a few computer historians who want to donate some time and energy would be greatly appreciated by the project!
????? No , no, no! People need to see their karma, even if they can't really consiously change it. A person who knows that they aren't a moderator because they have a negative karma value will be more motivated to stop (flaming, wasting people's time, etc.) if they can see the result of their effort to clean up their act. And it's only a race if you make it one. If you want it to be a race, then go to everyone's User Info page and compare it to yours. Then, YOU will make it feel like a race to the top of the Slashdot Karma Chart! (if there is one) As far as not showing points, moderators have a right to know what other moderator's opinions are. I'm not saying that moderators should be able to moderate and post in the same discussion, though. A moderator who has "slipped" through the moderator selection process and really shouldn't be one should still have some idea as to how to moderate the posts in any discussion, just by looking at point values. Still, their changes would get metamoderated as "unfair", they'd run out of points, and probably not become a moderator again in the near future.
Yes! - but, doesn't the shape matter? I'm sure some people, especially people who want square, beige boxes on their desks, don't like Apple's current designs. But can't that change? Who says that the world can't adapt to rounder shapes, and more colorful designs? I think we need to wait, and see where the world goes as far as computer design is concerned. I, for one, like my iMac in Bondi Blue, and haven't looked back since switching to a more colorful, rounded computer, and as more peripherals come out in colors, it will become harder and harder to resist the overwhelming pressure to buy products that come in colors.
It's not just computers, too. There are numerous other products now on the market that come in colors.
Colors are here to stay, and there's no way to stop them!
No, it's necessary, to keep moderators in the real world, and keep posts that should be moderated up up, and vice versa. Yet, that still doesn't alleviate the need for more points to be circulating, which is helped by the karma system.
Just my $.02