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Re: Review others websites and they review yours

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Post by jodrellblank »

aw3c2 wrote: post #13
jamesjyu wrote: post #7

Do not send passwords in the clear via email! That is all.

This usually hints at plain text storage of passwords, so: Please do not store passwords, store (salted) hashes instead.

Unless you want to be able to send your users passwords by email, in which case don't.

Re: Review others websites and they review yours

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Post by patio11 »

patio11 wrote: post #14

I feel that there is the danger here of a blind leading the blind effect. I tried it out for giggles. Not to pick on my reviewer, but here: There are alot of words on the landing page [of BCC]. Look at some of the ycombinator pages and you will notice the average site has about 45 words and 4-9 links. Don't give them so many options and so much to read. Otherewise, looks good! The quality of your users' interactions…

It occurs to me that you could literally retrospectively measure the odds that someone's first experience with the site was due to a hypercontributing outlier member. My intuition is that a) they contribute a hugely disproportionate amount of the value on SO (pick any metric you want for this), b) they contribute a hugely disproportionate amount of value relevant to someone's first use experience, and c) if you segment users into "first use was influenced by a hypercontributor" and "first use was not influenced by a hypercontributor", there is a measurable difference in retention rates in favor of the first group.

Proving or disproving these assumptions would be pretty important for strategic direction at a QA site, incidentally, since the world if I'm right looks very different from the world if I'm wrong. Since StackOverflow's data set is public, you could do it as a weekend project. In general, though, this is the kind of stupidly powerful thing you can go with the data you already have in your startup.

Re: Review others websites and they review yours

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Post by terrym »

patio11 wrote: post #22
patio11 wrote: post #14

I feel that there is the danger here of a blind leading the blind effect. I tried it out for giggles. Not to pick on my reviewer, but here: There are alot of words on the landing page [of BCC]. Look at some of the ycombinator pages and you will notice the average site has about 45 words and 4-9 links. Don't give them so many options and so much to read. Otherewise, looks good! The quality of your users' interactions…

It occurs to me that you could literally retrospectively measure the odds that someone's first experience with the site was due to a hypercontributing outlier member. My intuition is that a) they contribute a hugely disproportionate amount of the value on SO (pick any metric you want for this), b) they contribute a hugely disproportionate amount of value relevant to someone's first use experience, and c) if you segme…

I think your intuition is correct - that user contributions generally follow a power law, so when you randomize 1-to-1 interaction among all members, the likelihood of a person in the long-tail getting feedback from another user in the long-tail is high. A good essay on this: http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html

Re: Review others websites and they review yours

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Post by sundarurfriend »

patio11 wrote: post #14

I feel that there is the danger here of a blind leading the blind effect. I tried it out for giggles. Not to pick on my reviewer, but here: There are alot of words on the landing page [of BCC]. Look at some of the ycombinator pages and you will notice the average site has about 45 words and 4-9 links. Don't give them so many options and so much to read. Otherewise, looks good! The quality of your users' interactions…

> the average experience of using it would be getting your query on Rails ActiveRecord validation answered by a junior Java programmer from India

Please avoid such racist stereotyping. There are terrible and awesome programmers in every community, and it's an insult to put them in the same bin and call them the same name. I found it quite offensive myself.

Re: Review others websites and they review yours

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Post by huhtenberg »

raffi wrote: post #23

Feedback Army will get you many responses without giving up anything more than a few dollars. http://www.feedbackarmy.com

Raphael, have you added filtering by reviewer's location? Most of responses come from Asia and from people eager to earn your 60c per response. They are positively biased at best, and half-assed and incompetent at worst.
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