To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.suggestionsOpen lugnet.admin.suggestions in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / Suggestions / 1151
1150  |  1152
Subject: 
Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:26:53 GMT
Viewed: 
5633 times
  
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:17:11PM +0000, David Eaton wrote:
Although it would elicit some elitism and overuse, I wonder if there
could be a little counter by your member ID that says how many posts
you've spotlighted/highlighted. It may have the added effect of making
people actively TRY and get their numbers up further, just in the
spirit of friendly competition. But on the downside, it might
encourage rash bursts of more random highlighting. Personally, I think
it'd do more good than harm, but that's just a guess.

I do think it would be a good idea.  With the current imlpementation
though, I don't think it's easy to actually corralate posts with the
memebers who post them.

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
 
(...) Voting via email might be possible, although annoying and pretty unsecure. A reply by default just goes to the list. You'd have to somehow send your member ID (and password!) and a flag that says "I'm spotlighting this" via SMTP that would get (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

38 Messages in This Thread:














Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR