Looks fantastic! I love the new design, and I've even grown not to hate the funny pulldown menus.
Suggestion for the advanced search: how about "check all" and "uncheck all" buttons? It's mighty tiresome unchecking them all by hand if I only want to search in one particular area.
When I went in there the burritos were moving faster than the line was, so the wait was only about ten minuets. Wasn't so keen on the food but at least there's such a thing as a free lunch.
quisp: I promise you that the rules for Karma are the same for us as they are for everyone else. It's against our interests to mess around with the system - it would be unethical, and it would also be extremely embaressing if we were found out.
Staying out of voting entirely means you won't have any affect on other people's Karma.
liz: we've been talking about this and we've decided that Karma may not be a particularly good term for this whole thing either. Philosophically, Karma is something that you accumulate through your actions, not through people judging you. We're going to leave the system as-is over the weekend to let people play around with it and to get an idea for how well it's working, but we'll almost certainly make significant changes (including a possible renaming) early next week.
leslie: that's a very valid point, and in fact you're right: the system does keep track of who voted for what, in part so that we can ensure people don't vote for something more than once but also because in the long run we want to incorporate this data in to the karma calculation - for example, if someone ALWAYS votes negatively we'll count their contributions less than someone who votes negatively half the time and postiviely the other half.
So when you're voting, please bare in mind that the votes are only semi-anonymous. Sorry for any confusion - we should have made this clear from the start.
We're keeping the karma formula secret for the moment for two reasons: firstly, to discourage people from "gaming" the system (trying to trick it in to giving them the highest possible karma) and secondly because we will definitely be changing the formula several times in the next few days to discover what works best. Once we have a better understanding of how the karma system is working we may decide to share how the calculations are made.
Our end goal with the karma system is not to discredit people or set them up against each other; it's to encourage people to contribute to the community in a positive way. It's not an easy problem, so the more help we get in terms of feedback and suggestions the better!
UK Diaries I: Hail Britannia
As a not-so-hot former exchange student from Bath, I can confirm that the above pretty much sums us up :)
February 8, 2005 at 8:42 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
State of the homies address
Also, the search results for songs need an "add to playlist" link.
December 1, 2004 at 6:35 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
State of the homies address
Looks fantastic! I love the new design, and I've even grown not to hate the funny pulldown menus.
Suggestion for the advanced search: how about "check all" and "uncheck all" buttons? It's mighty tiresome unchecking them all by hand if I only want to search in one particular area.
December 1, 2004 at 6:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Free burritos and sodies -- 09/21/04 at Chipotle (Downtown)
When I went in there the burritos were moving faster than the line was, so the wait was only about ten minuets. Wasn't so keen on the food but at least there's such a thing as a free lunch.
September 21, 2004 at 3:58 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
quisp: I promise you that the rules for Karma are the same for us as they are for everyone else. It's against our interests to mess around with the system - it would be unethical, and it would also be extremely embaressing if we were found out.
August 20, 2004 at 7:31 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
Staying out of voting entirely means you won't have any affect on other people's Karma.
liz: we've been talking about this and we've decided that Karma may not be a particularly good term for this whole thing either. Philosophically, Karma is something that you accumulate through your actions, not through people judging you. We're going to leave the system as-is over the weekend to let people play around with it and to get an idea for how well it's working, but we'll almost certainly make significant changes (including a possible renaming) early next week.
August 20, 2004 at 6:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
leslie: that's a very valid point, and in fact you're right: the system does keep track of who voted for what, in part so that we can ensure people don't vote for something more than once but also because in the long run we want to incorporate this data in to the karma calculation - for example, if someone ALWAYS votes negatively we'll count their contributions less than someone who votes negatively half the time and postiviely the other half.
So when you're voting, please bare in mind that the votes are only semi-anonymous. Sorry for any confusion - we should have made this clear from the start.
August 20, 2004 at 5:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Introducing karma
We're keeping the karma formula secret for the moment for two reasons: firstly, to discourage people from "gaming" the system (trying to trick it in to giving them the highest possible karma) and secondly because we will definitely be changing the formula several times in the next few days to discover what works best. Once we have a better understanding of how the karma system is working we may decide to share how the calculations are made.
Our end goal with the karma system is not to discredit people or set them up against each other; it's to encourage people to contribute to the community in a positive way. It's not an easy problem, so the more help we get in terms of feedback and suggestions the better!
August 20, 2004 at 4:01 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
OK Jones CD release show with Thom Hoskins of Buffalo Saints -- 08/14/04 at Eighth Street Tap Room
I've seen OK Jones three times now and each time they're better than the last. This was a great show: it was so good I picked up a copy of the album.
Of course, being Richard's co-worker I'm prone to bias, but who isn't?
August 20, 2004 at 3:18 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Casino Boat Veterans against Randal E. Lee
This was definitely funnier than the first ad. Great music too.
August 20, 2004 at 2:42 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )