Veritula – Meta
#2666·Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months ago‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to spell or pronounce it. They can’t easily remember it.
There's something to be said for a degree of complexity and novelty to a name. It lends air of thoughtfulness, and could spark curiosity in potential new users.
#4356·Tyler Mills, about 20 hours ago'Veritula' is not a difficult name as compared to other highly successful explanatory enterprises, like 'Veritasium.'
See also: "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell", the highly successful educational YT channel. I know people who are big fans, and yet can't pronounce the name correctly.
#2666·Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months ago‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to spell or pronounce it. They can’t easily remember it.
'Veritula' is not a difficult name as compared to other highly successful explanatory enterprises, like 'Veritasium.'
Easier than ‘Veritula’, though. At least it’s a known word.
#2962·Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months agoThe red ‘Criticized’ label shows how many pending criticisms an idea has. For example ‘Criticized (5)’ means the idea has five pending criticisms.
But if there are lots of comments, including non-criticisms and addressed criticisms, it’s hard to identify pending criticisms.
There should be an easy way to filter comments of a given idea down to only pending criticisms.
As of 8e0a6e1, comments on each idea are shown in the following order: criticisms first, regular comments last. Within each category, uncontroversial comments are shown first. Lastly, comments are sorted by creation date (ascending).
#1869·Dennis HackethalOP, 5 months agoThe red ‘Criticized’ label could be clickable and filter the displayed comments ‘in place’.
Not as simple as #4349.
#1867·Dennis HackethalOP revised 5 months agoThe red ‘Criticized’ label could be a link leading to a filtered version of
ideas#show.
Not as simple as #4349.
#4274·Dennis HackethalOP, 14 days agoShould comments be sorted by controversial/uncontroversial first, date second?
More or less a duplicate of #4349.
#2962·Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months agoThe red ‘Criticized’ label shows how many pending criticisms an idea has. For example ‘Criticized (5)’ means the idea has five pending criticisms.
But if there are lots of comments, including non-criticisms and addressed criticisms, it’s hard to identify pending criticisms.
There should be an easy way to filter comments of a given idea down to only pending criticisms.
Could simply sort comments by pending criticism first, creation date second. (Variation of #4274.)
#4126·Dennis HackethalOP revised 26 days agoFeature idea: pay people to criticize an idea.
You start a ‘bounty’ of an arbitrary amount (min. USD 5), which is prorated among eligible critics after some deadline.
There could then be a page for bounties at /bounties. And a page listing a user’s bounties at /:username/bounties.
When starting a bounty, the user writes terms for the kinds of criticism they want. This way, they avoid having to pay people pointing out typos or other unwanted criticisms.
Anyone can start a bounty on any idea. There can only be one bounty per idea at a time.
To ensure a criticism is worthy of the bounty, the initiator gets a grace period of 24 hours at the end to review pending criticisms. Inaction automatically awards the bounty to all pending criticisms at the end of the grace period.
This has been implemented, sans page at /:username/bounties, which seems unnecessary.
Done.
Done, mostly as of 346fb25, then polished in 6dbf721, 5381525, 9f0f936, and 91e6f27.
#4128·Dennis HackethalOP, 26 days agoNeed ‘standing’ bounties: they don’t expire. I keep finding myself wanting a standing bounty for #3069 so I don’t have to re-run expiring bounties.
Done.
#4262·Dennis HackethalOP, 14 days agoAnother idea: letting users post ideas to their own profile. Such ideas wouldn’t be part of a discussion.
Cool idea!
Once this idea is implemented, the ‘Show activity’ button on bounties#show can link to the implementation.
Once this idea is implemented, the ‘Show activity’ button on bounties#show can link to the implementation.
#2962·Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months agoThe red ‘Criticized’ label shows how many pending criticisms an idea has. For example ‘Criticized (5)’ means the idea has five pending criticisms.
But if there are lots of comments, including non-criticisms and addressed criticisms, it’s hard to identify pending criticisms.
There should be an easy way to filter comments of a given idea down to only pending criticisms.
Once this idea is implemented, the ‘Show activity’ button on bounties#show can link to the implementation.
Should comments be sorted by controversial/uncontroversial first, date second?
Composing a top-level idea on mobile is atrocious. Need to scroll all the way down to see the form, the form keeps hiding itself, etc.
#2753·Benjamin Davies revised 4 months agoIdea: Veritula Articles
Currently, Veritula is a discussion website. I believe it could one day do what Wikipedia and Grokipedia do, but better.
A step towards that would be enabling users to produce ‘articles’ or something similar.
An ‘Articles’ tab would be distinct from the ‘Discussions’ tab, featuring explanatory documents similar to encyclopedia entries, and perhaps also blogpost-like content.
Articles focus on distilling the good ideas created/discovered in the discussions that occur on Veritula.
Another idea: letting users post ideas to their own profile. Such ideas wouldn’t be part of a discussion.
#4234·Dennis HackethalOP, 17 days agoNeed the ability to exclude archived ideas from search results.
Done as of e612125, polished as of 046438f.