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Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

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Post by xwowsersx »

nebulous1 wrote: post #39

You should look up ng-cloak

Yeah, we have some ng-cloaks in there, but for some reason there's more to it than that at least as far as the page title and login/logout text goes. Thank you for the tip though!

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

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Post by xwowsersx »

mind-blight wrote: post #22
chunkstuntman wrote: post #3

The stream of hint boxes that need to be closed before the page actually loads is very distracting and probably unnecessary to most users

I like them initially, but they return every time you come back. Only showing them once would be a much more pleasant experience.

Yes, we need to fix that. The onboarding should not reappear once you've clicked on one of the live tweets and finished the onboarding there. Not the best way to implement it though and we will fix it.

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

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Post by viraptor »

Slightly related: I was looking for some place on the Internets where you could submit an article and discuss the details / truthiness of it in a community (wiki?) style with some way to easily visualise and reference supporting data / tables. Does anyone know of a place like that?

This service is not exactly it, but comes close to the idea...

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

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Post by jay-saint »

a-nikolaev wrote: post #9

You can replace "Upvote" with two buttons: "Like" and "Confirm". Because people will tend to upvote things even if they are not sure wherther the fact is true or not, simply because they like that fact. There are way too many low quality (twitter?) messages. Personally, I would not spend any of my time refuting and upvoting them. People have only 24 hour in a day, you need to provide better links, so people not only…

Could you build or use an algorithm to place high weight on trusted sources from twitter? A twitter account that has had multiple past confirms or upvotes could get placed higher. May also be able to add weight based # of followers.

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

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Post by robryk »

austenallred wrote: post #26
diN0bot wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, I would keep tweaking the words if i were you to be exactly explicit/specific. eg: 1. 'like" is better than 'upvote' because it is clear that i am evaluate whether i like(re: enjoy) something, but what metric am i using to [up]vote on something? 2. "Reference URL" describes specifically what you want rather than some random URL.

Great feedback. But what if something is important but I don't "like" it - similar to how I'm not sure whether I should like a post on FB when my boss in unemployed. We've had that feedback too, like "This is awful and heartbreaking - do I favorite it?" (Favorite was the word we used to use).

Maybe "important" fits the constraints?

Re: Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

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Post by netcraft »

viraptor wrote: post #46

Slightly related: I was looking for some place on the Internets where you could submit an article and discuss the details / truthiness of it in a community (wiki?) style with some way to easily visualise and reference supporting data / tables. Does anyone know of a place like that? This service is not exactly it, but comes close to the idea...

You might find this subreddit interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/structureddebate

Also: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Debate_tools

If you find a good one let me know.

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