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Re: Hey, check out this new concept for a chatroom I made

#11
How about using the voting to change font size?

And if every user retained a unique id (maybe by using the IP), then the voting would change their font size for every post. And the voting would go back to 0 over time. eg. 1 point an hour.

And limit any ip to 1 message a second. And block double posting.

Re: Hey, check out this new concept for a chatroom I made

#12

How about using the voting to change font size? And if every user retained a unique id (maybe by using the IP), then the voting would change their font size for every post. And the voting would go back to 0 over time. eg. 1 point an hour. And limit any ip to 1 message a second. And block double posting.

And I have to many ands.

Re: Hey, check out this new concept for a chatroom I made

#13
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is pretty much a perfect example of an idea so bad, even its creator should have realized it and dropped it before it got anywhere near the implementation stage.

I just did it to practice my programming...

Exploratory programming is almost always worth it for its own sake. You can't be creative if you take yourself too seriously - so well done practicing your programming and exploring a new concept at the same time. Ideas and understanding you're gathering right now about this will sit in the back of your head and will make your next project just a touch better.

Again, well done!

Re: Hey, check out this new concept for a chatroom I made

#14
Hmm I actually see no meaning of karma in this form. I think at first only the upvoted messages should be seen, acting like a condense of the room slowing down the feed.

Then if someone wants he could zoom in to view much more at the same time until he reaches the level of "every message in real time" . Also you should decide if this karma would upvote the user or just that individual message. (sorry I couldn't decide which one because of the floods)

Btw this remembers me of my "zooming feed" idea for merging together top news and most recent feeds in facebook, where one could always go deeper in lesser trending news of his friends.

Edit: Still better trying out then me who just thinks about his ideas and maybe post them in comments.

Re: Hey, check out this new concept for a chatroom I made

#17
There is something interesting there, not sure exactly where or how this fits in. Not sure exactly what purpose the ratings serve. It is not like a particularly good comment stays on the screen very long. There is something good here and there is something missing, I just dont know exactly what that is.

Re: Hey, check out this new concept for a chatroom I made

#18
post #2

The conversation moves too fast for the points (karma) to matter. I can't see how this would work. Comments drop off as the conversation continues, removing any relevancy to the points. You can't "hold" highly-rated comments because they'll end up out of context.

This is pretty much a perfect example of an idea so bad, even its creator should have realized it and dropped it before it got anywhere near the implementation stage.

This is pretty much a perfect example of a comment so bad, even its creator should have realized it and dropped it before it got anywhere near the reply stage.

Seriously, what idea have you implemented lately?

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