I voted on an antiquated punchcard here in Chicago, where I waited in line for just under an hour. Thankfully, everybody was patient; I saw only one person leave early -- a suitcase-toting lady who had a plane to catch in two hours.
Thanks for all the great input, guys. We've taken your comments to heart and removed the karma stuff from lawrence.com blogs.
We're still keeping the "Was this a good comment?" functionality on other comment-enabled parts of the site, such as movie reviews, where the comments are less of a conversation and moreso standalone pieces. In those cases, we'll soon begin to offer a way of displaying the reviews in order by their rank (e.g. "Sort these reviews by most popular"), which we think would be a useful feature to have.
Yeah, combatting the cliquishness is key...We're going to roll in some safeguards in karma calculation that will attempt to avoid that, but we can't explain the techniques too much or they'll be abused. :-)
Like Simon said above, this is all still in the experimental stage, so we'll constantly be tweaking it.
Good point about the comments being a bit harder to read. We'd love to hear more feedback about how it could be improved. One thing we've been considering is putting all the karma stuff in a left column, bulletin-board style, and putting the comments themselves in a right column.
List time
Soul: Ray Charles, "Mess Around"
Jazz (male vocal): Will Young, "All The Things You Are"
Jazz (hard bop): Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "Moanin'"
Bossa nova: Getz/Gilberto, "Corcovado"
Undefinable: Billy Q. Effinger, "Warlock Supreme"
August 31, 2006 at 9:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
10 thoughts right before the long holiday weekend
New York pizza is a good snack. But not a meal.
December 30, 2004 at 12:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
/feedback/2004/nov/election_day/ -- Election Day 2004 feedback
I voted on an antiquated punchcard here in Chicago, where I waited in line for just under an hour. Thankfully, everybody was patient; I saw only one person leave early -- a suitcase-toting lady who had a plane to catch in two hours.
I'm curious to read how voting went in Lawrence.
November 2, 2004 at 5:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
Thanks for all the great input, guys. We've taken your comments to heart and removed the karma stuff from lawrence.com blogs.
We're still keeping the "Was this a good comment?" functionality on other comment-enabled parts of the site, such as movie reviews, where the comments are less of a conversation and moreso standalone pieces. In those cases, we'll soon begin to offer a way of displaying the reviews in order by their rank (e.g. "Sort these reviews by most popular"), which we think would be a useful feature to have.
August 23, 2004 at 10:22 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
We've changed it to the deliberately-vague "Good comment?" Thoughts?
August 20, 2004 at 4:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
Yeah, combatting the cliquishness is key...We're going to roll in some safeguards in karma calculation that will attempt to avoid that, but we can't explain the techniques too much or they'll be abused. :-)
Like Simon said above, this is all still in the experimental stage, so we'll constantly be tweaking it.
August 20, 2004 at 2:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
Good point about the comments being a bit harder to read. We'd love to hear more feedback about how it could be improved. One thing we've been considering is putting all the karma stuff in a left column, bulletin-board style, and putting the comments themselves in a right column.
August 20, 2004 at 2:08 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
1981: It's not possible to vote for yourself, which is why you didn't see the voting thing for your own.
August 20, 2004 at 1:24 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
First Watch Restaurant
Sure, it's a chain, but the food is high-quality and portions are huge. Recommended.
October 14, 2003 at midnight ( permalink | suggest removal )
Pizzeria Uno Chicago Bar & Grill
Chain or not, this is the best pizza in town. You can't beat Chicago-style deep-dish. This puts Rudy's, Papa Keno's, et al, to shame. Come hungry.
Disclaimer: I'm a Chicago native.
October 14, 2003 at midnight ( permalink | suggest removal )