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posted by max on June 02, 2007 at 04:28:09 PM
I'm going pretty insane working on nothing but moderation stuff. I want to get a few new features that might be fun to code done in the mean time.
Take a look at the TODO file and leave a comment on the feature you'd most like to see get developed this week. Whatever seems to get the most response is what I will work on.
Take a look at the TODO file and leave a comment on the feature you'd most like to see get developed this week. Whatever seems to get the most response is what I will work on.
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I would like to see YTMNSFW fixed. Even when I'm logged into YTMND and visit a YTMNSFW site I'm asked to verify my age. I figure it should remember how old I am. After that I'm not able to vote on the YTMNSFW site because it doesn't recognize that I'm logged in. I've seen this problem come and go for quite awhile now so I'm not sure if it is an issue on my end or not. Maybe bring back YTMNSFW.com. RSS feeds for YTMNEWS would be nice. The flash preloader advertising could help if handled delicately.
I'd go for ads in the preloader pretty quickly. It seems like a piece of really good, captive audience advertising real estate that could generate some serious revenue for the site, which clearly it, and you, need. Other than that really the moderation system will be a great help.
Liking the changes to the vote info on the profiles, though ive noticed the line "You've made x total votes with an average rating of y" is now broken. Though I'm sure you saw that too.
No because alot of times people who vote honestly and harshly get revenge downvoted and have poorly rated sites. I contribute alot to YTMND and my sites either are pure crap, poorly rated, or both. Vote weighing based on vote spread, number of votes made, time registered, and comments left would be the best way to reward active members and stop vote inflation by bad users.
Though I'd like the mod system to be finished, it doesn't seem to be an option for this week. User collaborated sites seems like an interesting idea. For example, the authors for We Didn't Start This Website would appear as NeoMatrixClt and Feedrosie. The site would then appear in both of their user profiles. Favorite users would also be a fun thing to add, but the wiki seems to be doin a good job of covering that for now.
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I would love to see the ability to get a CC license in there... but only for use outside of YTMND... if you create it inside YTMND you should be able to use it on other ytmnds without restriction (although having the orig owner claim something is cool...) But remember, this may cause fights between users who claim to be the original holder of work... if someone makes a slight change they may claim something and not give credit to the person before them...
The idea of "Downations" is pretty creative. The only issue I would see is somebody donating a lot of money, just to have their site downated off the front page. This may cause some real problems.
Hardcore mode seems a bit too tough---A new user is forced to make a site that, if it doesn't receive a 2.5+ rating, the account gets deleted. Sometimes good sites just have bad luck; this is something to consider.
The issue of accidental deletion can just be handled by...
making a text box pop up in which the user has to type "delete." The private option, I believe, is a very BAD idea...It will lead to many poor quality sites (that will often be about inside jokes), and that's just a waist of space. On the friends list, everything seemed good except for the "sworn enemies" option because that could lead to *ugh* more downvoting. For the "super ugh" groups, I think you can just hold off on those for a little while XD. In my mind, they would not do much to improve YTMND.
Well I think the moderation system at this point is probably the most vital feature. However, I guess the feature out everything in the TODO file that might be a valuable addition is User Profiles. Nothing real elaborate though I guess basic information and other fields relating to YTMND would be ok. But I don't need to know that BTape is currently listening to Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend and his current mood is hungry. Nor do I really need to know fourests favorite movies...since I already do.
I disagree with downations. Personally I'd be pissed if I spent my hard earned dollars on a good site (which I do all the time, in case anyone's noticed) and someone else donated an equal amount of money to take it away. if I may say so that sounds like a pretty thinly-veiled attempt at garnering more sponsorship dollarz to me, Max.
I'd like the 56k option to be worked on next. I'd imagine it wouldn't be too terrible to code (Though I'm not a coder). Maybe you could just have an option under the Account Options that allows you to see the approximate site of the YTMND, that could solve both problems. It would also give you an estimate how long you'd have to wait for the YTMND to load.
"[ CONTENT BOXES/ALGORITHMS THAT NEED WRITING ] +- Sites that are older than 1 week but have less than 10 votes." I'd like to see this one, just because I've got some sites that have been up for a long time with under a dozen votes. Not saying they're great, but it'd be nice to see how they stack up with a little more publicity. I'm betting a lot of other users could say the same. Maybe they could be sorted by age instead of vote-count.
I didn't see this anywhere on the TODO file, but it's an idea I've had for a while now. Maybe you could implement it so that the creator of a YTMND/YTMNDs can delete comments (not the votes, just the comments) on only his/her site(s). This way, users won't have to bug the moderators every time there's a comments spammer and they won't have to rely on several other users to downvote and hide their mostly nonsensical comments.
+- Enable NSFW warning option
Does this mean you'll automatically make any site that is NSFW or flagged as such have they little (NSFW) off to the side? That would really be nice so that when I'm at work I don't waste time clicking on a website only to have it popup that "NSFW click to continue" screen, and then have to click back.
Or maybe better yet have an option like the don't show NSFW be sitewide so I don't even see them at work.