Aspects, not categories.

Post #26,328 by marlowe 1/29/02 12:13:50 PM Reply	Aspects, not categories. Religion politics, financial, news... these aren't categories. They're all aspects of stories. Each topic can have any combination of these aspects. Which makes the divvying up of the site along these lines a bit clumsy. It's not always clear just where a given story or observation best fits. I haven't got a concrete proposal, so I'm not putting this in Suggestions. I have a vague idea that some sort of cross-posting mechanism might be good, but no details on just how, or even whether, it would work. I'm just kvetching here. There. Now I've kvetched. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #26,377 by nking 1/29/02 3:10:46 PM Reply	Good idea! Also My-IWETHEY There can be a customize interface to ZIWETHEY called MY-IWETHEY that the user can use to filter out the stories he/she doesn't want to read by aspects. So if a story has a "Sports" aspect, he/she won't even see it on his/her customize view of ZIWETHEY. Just the Aspects that he/she picks to view will show up. Sort of like [link\|http://my.yahoo.com\|My Yahoo] or that MSN junk. :) "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,415 by marlowe 1/29/02 5:13:22 PM Reply	Keywords! Have a blank where you can enter a list of keywords for a message. Have a CGI query that filters messages based on keywords. On the front page, a list of canned queries in lieu of fora, and a form where you can construct a custom query. Within the query response page, have a button to add the query to the user's profile. When the user is logged in, his custom queries appear on the front page along with the canned queries. A New Message button on the query response page fills in the keywords field of the new message with the query. Editable, of course. But it's a handy default. How to prevent excessive crossposting? For starters, keep the keywords blank shortish. Also, on the CGI processing, throw out any keywords beyond N count. Any message with a blank keywords field winds up in the Open Forum. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #26,409 by kmself 1/29/02 5:08:15 PM Reply	FWIW, similar proposal at K5 I've been nagging Rusty on a similar idea for Kuro5hin/Scoop. I think that the categorization of stories done by authors is often poor. I'd rather see a story "affinity", which would tend to place it in certain categories. The K5 categories themselves are also relatively IMVAO poor. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.ix.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #26,412 by ben_tilly 1/29/02 5:10:44 PM Reply	As we have discussed Finding ways to filter to improve the matchup between user and content is absolutely key to extracting the most value from networks. What is (deliberately) unavailable is sometimes more important than what is available. See killfiles for prior art. :-) Cheers, Ben
Post #26,421 by pwhysall 1/29/02 5:35:16 PM Reply	Make it reader-driven. Have some kind of voting policy for submissions; reader gets to pick up to plucks arbitrary number from arse 4 categories (aspects, whatever) for a submission. Many readers will provide some kind of consensus. Top 4 categories win, and story appears in those categories(aspects, sections, pigeonholes). Stories could and would appear in multiple thingies, which is IMNVHO a good thing. Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #26,435 by nking 1/29/02 7:25:19 PM Reply	Ah yes, very good! That way a post will appear under the Linux and Unix aspects if those aspects are selected by the users. It will avoid the poster having to make two posts. He/she can make one, and then have the readers vote where to put it. :) "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #26,622 by Ashton 1/31/02 2:04:24 AM Reply	Ah.. this then would be the parsing of that famous key to the comprehension of the Universe and Everything, by Mr. Ashleigh Brilliant, In the end ---> ______________<---Everything Depends ---> Upon Everything Else. Or, via Imric's ref to Build a Crooked House (Henlein) in another forum: Welcome to Tesseract ^Terrace Enter any^where \ufffd Exit \ufffd any_when The Eight-fold Way is your friend...

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