Either I have a really good internet connection right now (which is unlikely), or this app seems really fast! Good job! (Also the colors look great).
Are you doing anything special on the backend?
Our new Rails app: pplrep
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Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#22I'm reminded of a game I used to play in middle school called MapleStory. It was a pretty generic, grindy MMORPG but one of its more mechanics was a 'reputation' stat that each character had, with no ostensible uses besides to tell who was well-liked and who wasn't. You could 'fame' someone and 'defame' someone once per day, similar to this system. As one might expect, the system never was as honest as you'd hope: yo…
Some forum software (for example, the free SMF[1]) include a similar feature, where members can vote each other up/down.
Now while on paper it's not very different from the reddit/HN/etc. karma system, in reality it is- on many such forums, the community is very compact[2], and there is a greater sense of member hierarchy (I believe that having picture avatars contributes to that, as they are very quickly remembered). The resulting social construct is often very interesting, with members staging coups against one another, trying to gain power (= being a moderator), and so on.
I've spent many hours as a teenager in such communities in the early 2000s, and it was very entertaining and interesting in terms of human dynamics- pretty much cyberpolitics where the goal is to rule on a forum rather than a territory.
I'm certain that there are tons of social experiments that can be done in the context of cyber-communities, and that what we have today (social news sites, social network) barely scratches the surface.
[1]: http://www.simplemachines.org
[2]: that is, for any 2 random active members, the probability that they have posted in a same thread is much closer to 1 than on reddit/HN/etc.; this is definitely helped by the fact that threads tend to be linear in such forums
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#23Props for the clever privacy policy and simple language used, (I wish more sites would take that approach) but it doesn't say anything about sharing information collected with third parties. Given the nature of the site, it would be nice to understand whether the site intends on monetizing collected personal information.
BTW, that isn't necessarily a bad thing but it is an important aspect of the sites privacy policy.
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#24Either I have a really good internet connection right now (which is unlikely), or this app seems really fast! Good job! (Also the colors look great). Are you doing anything special on the backend?
Not really. We still haven't implemented any caching. Probably will in the next week or so. And we're gonna need to figure out a way to scale the leaderboard soon. Probably gonna use redis for that.
Thanks for the kind words.
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#25Is the search supposed to do something? I tried three people I knew and then tried 'John Smith' -- returned 0 results every time.
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#26Anyone else think the UI looks very Heroku-esque? I'm not one to sue over superficial differences and "purple" is not a trademark, but I thought pplrep was a Heroku product at first.
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#27Props for the clever privacy policy and simple language used, (I wish more sites would take that approach) but it doesn't say anything about sharing information collected with third parties. Given the nature of the site, it would be nice to understand whether the site intends on monetizing collected personal information. BTW, that isn't necessarily a bad thing but it is an important aspect of the sites privacy policy…
We don't plan to, no. Your info doesn't matter to us outside of us figuring out how people use the site in order to better improve it. At any point, you can just delete your account, and it'll be permanently deleted. There are no soft deletes here. You delete your account, and all content you create is deleted everywhere.
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#28>Each time you rep someone, you are rewarded with 2 rep points of your own. If I randomly rep enough people I will become A GOD.
Hi, I am the author of the app. Thanks for your comment. There's a limit on how often you can rep a single person (once every 24 hours), and if you are to spam different people with rep, your rep is likely to be deleted by the person's profile, which will take your score back down two points. Since a person's profile is public, they likely don't want their profile filled with spam rep or to like their reps are fake.…
It'll likely end up working the same way it does on LinkedIn and Twitter. On LinkedIn I get strangers wanting to connect all the time so they can increase the surface perception of the the size of their network. And on Twitter it's similar: people who follow an implausibly large number of people in the hopes those people will follow back end up following me temporarily, hoping I'll follow back.
Is the amount of rep a person gives out visible on their profile? That would be useful in gauging how genuine their motiviation is.
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#29Anyone else think the UI looks very Heroku-esque? I'm not one to sue over superficial differences and "purple" is not a trademark, but I thought pplrep was a Heroku product at first.
The color we are using is actually "blue iris." It's a mix of blue and purple, and we think it looks great. It was pantone's color of the year 2008. Heroku looks great, too, so we'll take that as a compliment ;).
Re: Our new Rails app: pplrep
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, I am the author of the app. Thanks for your comment. There's a limit on how often you can rep a single person (once every 24 hours), and if you are to spam different people with rep, your rep is likely to be deleted by the person's profile, which will take your score back down two points. Since a person's profile is public, they likely don't want their profile filled with spam rep or to like their reps are fake.…
It'll likely end up working the same way it does on LinkedIn and Twitter. On LinkedIn I get strangers wanting to connect all the time so they can increase the surface perception of the the size of their network. And on Twitter it's similar: people who follow an implausibly large number of people in the hopes those people will follow back end up following me temporarily, hoping I'll follow back. Is the amount of rep a…
The amount of times they've given out rep is indeed visible on their profile.