Posted by Lou Pilder on August 14, 2008, at 10:29:52
In reply to Other Ideas » Lou Pilder, posted by Marty on August 14, 2008, at 9:18:01
> > Marty,
> > You wrote,[...this fantasm...]
> > I am unsure if your text has in it all the fantasm that you could offer. If not , could you post some more of the fantasm that you may have?
> > Lou
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> LOL. Not sure if you're being sarcastic as I never saw you post before. I hangout in the Med forum. So I'll answer to a sarcastic interpretation of your post and to a non-sarcastic one:
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> Fantasm is a word which is not exclusively related to sexuality and so my project could be described as such. Especially considering the scope/size/ambition of the project!
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> Actually, yes, I have other ideas for that project. For some reason I prefer, at this stage, keep some for me as I'm evaluating the possibility of starting this project on my own if nobody here is interested in it. But since you ask and not many people here to date seem to care about those ideas (lol).. here's another little one:
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> The users would be allowed to post contents in (some) forums. By contents I mean videos, images, Website and polls. When browsing a forum, while standard threads are obviously listed with their 'Subject', the polls are listed with their question and current top result (ie: Yes, No, Nardil, Nausea etc), the videos and images are listed with small thumbnails of the videos/images (A la YouTube) and a description, website URL with a title and description. Also the contents in the forums could be 'voted' on (see Digg.com to understand what I'm talking about). For obvious reason there couldn't be NEGATIVE score for an entity as it could make the contributor of this entity feel bad about being 'burried'.. so the minimum score would be 0. What it gives us is:
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> 1.The possibility to highlight what is considered worthy of more attention by the
> community. When you enter a thread based on a question which you wish to know the answer.. and that thread as 5, 10, 15 posts into it.. you would appreciate that the community who already read the post and voted for the ones which they think was the best so that you quickly see/know which post contains the best answer/analysis/comment .. because it's visually highlighted. The highlight could be in the form of a star/icons, different font/font size/font type (bold,italic) and font colour... depeding on the popularity from pale to dark/fluorescent etc.
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> 2.When a user search for some keywords in the platform search engine, the search engine algorithm take into account the scores of the contents when deciding the order of relevancy (the order in which the search results are presented to the user).. this enrich greatly the search engine algorithm to take into account what matters to the community, not only 'word count' and 'view count'.
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> 3.The possibility to build up a Top X(10, 50, 100) entity (post/video/image/poll/URL etc) based on a popularity algorithm who would take into account the popularity score and possibly other variable like view count. A Top 10 (of the last 24 hours or the last week) could be shown on the frontpage of the site. This frontpage Top 10 could be customized individually by the users to make it match what subjects matter to them.. (exclude/include some forums, keywords in title or description or post, exclude/proritize some contributors/user and set the timeframe they wish for their frontpage Top 10 (24 hours... 1 week, 1 month etc))
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> That's it. That's another thing that would be interesting. While this is not something very useful in a website which reveive about 10 new threads a day, keep in mind that this project if well done and supported could brings alot of contributors and not only of the 'patient/sufferer' type but also the 'clinicians/researchers' type. Note that the platform would adapt to the user type and take in account what that user said he was interested in and his purpose on the site when he created his account.. for this specific 'popularity engine' idea, it means that 'by default', without the need for the user to go customize his Top 10 or create custom 'forum views', a neuroscientist currently working on lets say "Modulation of basal and stress-induced amygdaloid substance P release by the potent and selective NK1 receptor antagonist L-822429" wouldn't have to see in his Top 10 a post about "poor /\/\arty having strange nightmares since he withdraw from X or Y med" but wouldn't miss post by one of his (unknown to him)peer in Liechtenstein (a 62 square miles country) relating how 3 in 70 of his lab rats has loosed their vision 6 hours after the administration of the selective NK1 receptor antagonist L-822429 when co-administred with mentos and diet coke. (you get my point.. lol)
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> I think it makes the site more interesting, interactive and somehow possibly more "productive" as it 'gets the word out' about the things that are worth seeing/reviewing.. also it encourage and reward the quality of the contributions.
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> Btw, I think that not everything that you can dream you can do or build. But in the case where you can't do it alone, if you believe enought in that dream and can inspire enough some people around that dream.. (depending on the nature of the dream in question) .. you could make it happen. In this case I have the technical abilities to make it happen on the technological side of most of my ideas... but without support in the form of a team/community/contributors/sponsors .. I doubt of the success of the project. Many great project ended up being awesome technology resting on an archived backup tape .. doing nothing for anyone.. only collecting dust and loosing value over time until it becomes worthless and unusable.
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> Later,
> /\/\artyMarty,
You wrote,[...if you believe enough..an can inspire..people arouud that dream..could..happen...support in the form of a team..community/contributors...many..collecting dust...]
What I see in your text here is a vision. You could add me to the contributor base, but my vision is that a community is a {structure} and that a structure could be rehabilitated or dismantled and rebuilt. What could be your vision on that?
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:845970
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