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Re: Review my project – Interestin

#21

Post by nilkn »

joeconway wrote: post #9

As an aside, it honestly confuses me why the vast majority of company blogs don't have an actual link to their home page, but instead prefer to have the header link to their blog subdomain.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine, but at least in this case there is a link to the actual home page in the first sentence of the blog post.

The real problem, which happens shockingly often, is when a blog post doesn't obviously link to the main site anywhere -- or otherwise buries the link deep into the post -- and neither does the blog.

Re: Review my project – Interestin

#22

Post by mladenkovacevic »

talhof8 wrote: post #13
berberous wrote: post #10

I like the idea but dislike the name. It's hard for me to pronounce. My brain kind of get's stuck between 'interest in' and "interestin'"

Thanks, I'll think of something better (open to suggestions).

Some keywords to perhaps start your brainstorm:

Debate

Retort

Opine

Topical

Quibble

Squabble

Fence (as in "what side of the fence are you on" or the sport of fencing)

Argueable

Rebuttal

Re: Review my project – Interestin

#24

Post by intull »

You can learn a LOT from HN itself.

HN is heavily moderated and the best part is a lot of people collectively do it and everyone accepts it. That's how the quality is maintained. You need to enforce this from the beginning. Quora did it and has quality. Yahoo! Answers didn't, and doesn't have that professionalism that Quora has. Also, HN has quite a complex rating algo in place for upvotes. You might want to be inspired with that too.

Are you planning to give rating to users based on a voting strategy? It usually attracts people to be more interactive and get more visibility on a platform.

From my own experiences in managing a community/platform, concentrate more on the quality and quantity will increase gradually. Getting a lot of people joining initially itself can open roads for destruction in the future, which you might not be able to see now.

Re: Review my project – Interestin

#25

Post by talhof8 »

mladenkovacevic wrote: post #22
talhof8 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, I'll think of something better (open to suggestions).

Some keywords to perhaps start your brainstorm: Debate Retort Opine Topical Quibble Squabble Fence (as in "what side of the fence are you on" or the sport of fencing) Argueable Rebuttal

Thanks, appreciate that!

Re: Review my project – Interestin

#26

Post by talhof8 »

intull wrote: post #24

You can learn a LOT from HN itself. HN is heavily moderated and the best part is a lot of people collectively do it and everyone accepts it. That's how the quality is maintained. You need to enforce this from the beginning. Quora did it and has quality. Yahoo! Answers didn't, and doesn't have that professionalism that Quora has. Also, HN has quite a complex rating algo in place for upvotes. You might want to be inspi…

Thanks you so much!

As for the ratings - users get karma (a la HN) for each upvote they get. There isn't any user-rating algorithm behind it, but I plan to do it in the future. Thanks again!

Re: Review my project – Interestin

#28

Post by amalantony06 »

grimtrigger wrote: post #23

Why do I need to be invited? Why can't I just sign up

I can think of the following reasons:

* The product might not be ready yet, OP probably wants to gauge the community opinion before spending precious time on building his project.

* OP might not want to overload his server, in case this goes viral.

Re: Review my project – Interestin

#30

Post by mbenjaminsmith »

1. The first part makes me think you're solving the problem of "long form" comments -- providing better tools for writing in depth responses to things. On more careful reading it sounds like you're not doing that. I left unsure of what the project really is.

2. We're NSA proof! No you're not. Being "just anonymous" is really more than enough and overstating -- and then contradicting -- the actual level of anonymity you provide is counterproductive if you're trying to build trust.

3. Get rid of the lorem ipsum. That section confused me most of all. We need examples to understand the product.

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