OpenEuphoria

Re: Registration

• Posted by Chris Bensler <bensler at nt.net> Oct 22, 2006
• 1016 views

Igor Kachan wrote:
> 
> Igor Kachan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Dear EU users,
> > 
> > Just a thought.
> > 
> > Maybe it is a time to reset the registration
> > rules?
> > 
> > Say, registered user is just a contributing one ...
> > to Contrib page. Plus a donating one ... to RDS.
> > Plus all already registered.
> > Then Micro-Economy will work as it already works.
> 
> To be more exact, this Micro-Economy was something
> like to play or game anyway. It is just a score or
> bill or count of a user's happiness regarding some
> contribution. This game was very nice, why not to
> keep it and now, when EU is absolutely free?
> To keep it without any and all obligations of RDS,
> naturally.   
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Igor Kachan
> kinz at peterlink.ru

The micro-economy should be replaced with a voting system and a comment system
for downloads.

Rob has previously expressed concern for the possibility of voting system abuse
though.

IMO, if people have to sign up with email verification before being able to post
contributions, it will deter most chances of abuse.

Another problem with a voting system, or comments sections is that people
aren't/shouldn't comment until after they've tried the product and by then it's
unlikely they will return to the download page to cast a vote or make a comment.
This could be encouraged by having people sign up to be able to download and when
they attempt to download a file it will remember their previous X number of
downloads and remind them to vote/comment on them. It shouldn't be intrusive, but
just a friendly reminder, that could be disabled/ignored on a per download basis
(but not completely or permanently turned off).

Another way of getting the cream to rise to the top would be to have moderated
and unmoderated download categories. Moderated downloads would be those which
have passed some basic requirments for completeness, usefulness, quality, etc.
All contributions are first place in the unmoderated (unapproved files)
categories. From there, they can be nominated for the moderated categories.

Other types of categories could be useful as well, such as a hall of fame,
pick of the week, etc.


Chris Bensler
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