Comments on: Site Idea - Must Read Thread Reporter http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/ Sharing lessons learned in business and online marketing Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:57:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ash http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2583 Ash Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:53:22 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2583 I actually tend to prefer smaller forums, as Digital Point and similar just gets clogged with useless, pointless posts and threads. I actually tend to prefer smaller forums, as Digital Point and similar just gets clogged with useless, pointless posts and threads.

]]> By: Ash http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2582 Ash Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:52:03 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2582 Classic! Dodgy foreign keyboards, and a reply filled with typos! Oh err, better comment on the subject in hand else my comment will be getting filed under spam, under your new system! ;-) Its certainly a great idea, implementing it would be tough, it would need some kind of complex algo to weed out potential abuse etc. If something like this could be implemented on DP, it would improve the forum tenfold! Classic! Dodgy foreign keyboards, and a reply filled with typos!

Oh err, better comment on the subject in hand else my comment will be getting filed under spam, under your new system! ;-)

Its certainly a great idea, implementing it would be tough, it would need some kind of complex algo to weed out potential abuse etc. If something like this could be implemented on DP, it would improve the forum tenfold!

]]> By: dingo http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2571 dingo Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:12:23 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2571 Starting to wonder about digital point to be honest, it seems like every other member is just there to pimp their money making scheme rather than share knowledge. The rest of the members are as clueless as me. A lot of them seem to be young teenagers or wannabee gurus spouting motivational gibbersh, with the sole intention of pimping the link to their adsense site. It actually destroys my motivation reading that site, it's about as informative as typing "Get money for nothing" in to google and then clicking all the adwords links. Starting to wonder about digital point to be honest, it seems like every other member is just there to pimp their money making scheme rather than share knowledge. The rest of the members are as clueless as me.

A lot of them seem to be young teenagers or wannabee gurus spouting motivational gibbersh, with the sole intention of pimping the link to their adsense site. It actually destroys my motivation reading that site, it’s about as informative as typing “Get money for nothing” in to google and then clicking all the adwords links.

]]> By: Al http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2565 Al Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:31:22 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2565 I've fınally found a PC to comment on so holıday gets a bıut easıerŞ oh and thanks Scott for postıng thıs. The ıdea ıs to have the people you choose to vote and rate be knowledgable about the nıche so ıf you're readıng a sıte lıke thıs you can guarantee the lınks would be relevent to our content Wıth regards to a self moderatıng forum that could be a bıt more trıcky but ın the end the communıty would run ıt as such. Appologıes for spellıng and the odd funny letter şçŞÇiIı but Turkısh keyboards are strange wıth no spellchecker ın sıgt. I’ve fınally found a PC to comment on so holıday gets a bıut easıerŞ oh and thanks Scott for postıng thıs.

The ıdea ıs to have the people you choose to vote and rate be knowledgable about the nıche so ıf you’re readıng a sıte lıke thıs you can guarantee the lınks would be relevent to our content

Wıth regards to a self moderatıng forum that could be a bıt more trıcky but ın the end the communıty would run ıt as such.

Appologıes for spellıng and the odd funny letter şçŞÇiIı but Turkısh keyboards are strange wıth no spellchecker ın sıgt.

]]> By: ed thira http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2552 ed thira Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:10:33 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2552 Great idea Al! The same idea can be applied to websites. I'm big fan of techbargains.com and used to visit it daily, but got tired of sifting through all the deals after a while. It also appears as if they have to manually review user submissions before posting. I was wondering if there was a way to automate this. So I thought that I would experiment by developing a site called FreeBestDeal.com, currently underdevelopment. Users can submit deals are automatically posted. The deals get put on a top deals list, or automatically removed based upon a voting system similar to one that you described. Abdul, I think that the members would only down vote obvious spam. Any posts with content, they would leave alone. Great idea Al! The same idea can be applied to websites. I’m big fan of techbargains.com and used to visit it daily, but got tired of sifting through all the deals after a while. It also appears as if they have to manually review user submissions before posting. I was wondering if there was a way to automate this.

So I thought that I would experiment by developing a site called FreeBestDeal.com, currently underdevelopment. Users can submit deals are automatically posted. The deals get put on a top deals list, or automatically removed based upon a voting system similar to one that you described.

Abdul, I think that the members would only down vote obvious spam. Any posts with content, they would leave alone.

]]> By: Abdul http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2549 Abdul Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:16:31 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2549 OK This seems like a good idea bit how will it be monetized? Also there is a major flaw with this too. What I might find intersting might not be the appealing to most others or vice versa. How will you over over come that problem to make it appealing for as many people as possible? OK This seems like a good idea bit how will it be monetized?

Also there is a major flaw with this too.

What I might find intersting might not be the appealing to most others or vice versa. How will you over over come that problem to make it appealing for as many people as possible?

]]> By: Patrick Altoft http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2546 Patrick Altoft Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:14:18 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2546 I can't believe VB hasn't implemented the ability to bury useless replies and threads. I can’t believe VB hasn’t implemented the ability to bury useless replies and threads.

]]> By: Matthew http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2545 Matthew Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:39:44 +0000 http://selfmademinds.com/200707/site-idea-must-read-thread-reporter/#comment-2545 This seems to follow an idea that I had but my idea didnt include a digg like approach for getting rid of spam. The idea would really only work on a busy forum. Basically each thread can be rated by users and those that meet a threshold of good votes are automatically promoted in to another forum. I guess the weight of a users vote could be calculated on experience and reputation that being a member who contributes more good to the forum has more weight to throw at the voting system. Basically we could take digitalpoint forums as an example. They have tons of threads like "stumble me and Ill stumble you 3x" and "how much do you make per day with adsense" and the list of all this clutter goes on and on. There are some real gems of threads that are to be found. If a voting system was in place then a section devoted to these gems could be made and you can browse around "good advice" only with out the junk around it. You vote a thread because it is good, it then gets promoted in to a "good threads only section" making it more of a gold mine to find info. However, you would need to be careful not to take away from the growing part of the forum. No doubt everyone will go to the gold mine and trash those threads. Anyway... just a few thoughts I have had for a year or so ;) This seems to follow an idea that I had but my idea didnt include a digg like approach for getting rid of spam.

The idea would really only work on a busy forum. Basically each thread can be rated by users and those that meet a threshold of good votes are automatically promoted in to another forum. I guess the weight of a users vote could be calculated on experience and reputation that being a member who contributes more good to the forum has more weight to throw at the voting system.

Basically we could take digitalpoint forums as an example. They have tons of threads like “stumble me and Ill stumble you 3x” and “how much do you make per day with adsense” and the list of all this clutter goes on and on. There are some real gems of threads that are to be found. If a voting system was in place then a section devoted to these gems could be made and you can browse around “good advice” only with out the junk around it. You vote a thread because it is good, it then gets promoted in to a “good threads only section” making it more of a gold mine to find info.

However, you would need to be careful not to take away from the growing part of the forum. No doubt everyone will go to the gold mine and trash those threads.

Anyway… just a few thoughts I have had for a year or so ;)

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