I only have 259 posts, but of course it's difficult to measure quality.
And we do appreciate you making it easier by ensuring we only have to go through 259 posts.
Mal: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em. Zoe: Shoot 'em? Mal: Politely.
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
billytea - Nov 07, 2002 7:31:39 am PST #1245 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2002 7:44:49 am PST #1246 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not to distract from the post-quantity/quality discussion, but I have a couple of thoughts about the Proposed Project(s).
1) I imagine the quiz would not be hard to do. I mean, probably hard for the coder-type-person, but not hard for the question-writers, right?
2) Similarly, I imagine the episode guide would take a lot of time just gathering and sorting the information. We talked about doing a Buffista Quality Index or whatever, right? Just that would take a lot of voting by a lot of people. So,
3) The first question is how many people do we have who could do the coding part(s) of things, and how much time do they have? Because I'd think we could do the quiz relatively quickly, but the ep guide would have to be more of a long-term project.
Basically, I think we could do both, but don't really have enough information to say that we should do both.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2002 7:46:31 am PST #1247 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And so as not to keep everyone in suspense, I'm #4 on ita's list there. This is my post #1484. Eek!
§ ita § - Nov 07, 2002 7:57:42 am PST #1248 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At first blush, the coding and database design for the quizzes as John described them is no simpler than the coding for the episode guide.
Jesse - Nov 07, 2002 8:01:34 am PST #1249 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aha! So then the question is, do we have two people who'd volunteer to do one each, or one person who'd volunteer to do both? If not, then we have to pick.
Michele T. - Nov 07, 2002 8:58:31 am PST #1250 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Jesse's right.
I still don't know how you find out where you are on the poster list. IJS.
Jon B. - Nov 07, 2002 9:02:14 am PST #1251 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Megan E. - Nov 07, 2002 9:22:15 am PST #1252 of 10000
Wow... I had 500 posts when I checked. Nubmer!
Jon B. - Nov 07, 2002 9:32:02 am PST #1253 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Could we please take the post-counting posts to Natter. t /stomp
Betsy HP - Nov 07, 2002 9:59:24 am PST #1254 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
I have an enhancement request to QuickEdit. It may well complicate the pattern-matching far too much to be worth it. Could we consider automatically transforming *foo* into foo?
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