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  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #1876.

There could be a separate button to filter comments down.

#1876​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 7 months ago

Not as simple as #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #1869.

The red ‘Criticized’ label could be clickable and filter the displayed comments ‘in place’.

#1869​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 7 months ago

Not as simple as #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #1867.

The red ‘Criticized’ label could be a link leading to a filtered version of ideas#show.

#1867​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 7 months ago

Not as simple as #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #4274 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #4274.

Should comments be sorted by controversial/uncontroversial first, date second?

#4274​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 3 months ago

More or less a duplicate of #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2962.

The 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.

#2962​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months ago

Could simply sort comments by pending criticism first, creation date second. (Variation of #4274.)

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #2750 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #2442 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #4126.

Feature 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.

#4126​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 3 months ago

This has been implemented, sans page at /:username/bounties, which seems unnecessary.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #4345.

Done.

Done, mostly as of 346fb25, then polished in 6dbf721, 5381525, 9f0f936, and 91e6f27.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #4128.

Need ‘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.

#4128​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 3 months ago

Done.

  Benjamin Davies commented on idea #4262.

Another idea: letting users post ideas to their own profile. Such ideas wouldn’t be part of a discussion.

#4262​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 3 months ago

Cool idea!

  Dennis Hackethal revised idea #4282.

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.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2962.

The 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.

#2962​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months ago

Once this idea is implemented, the ‘Show activity’ button on bounties#show can link to the implementation.

  Dennis Hackethal posted idea #4274.

Should comments be sorted by controversial/uncontroversial first, date second?

  Dennis Hackethal posted criticism #4267.

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.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on idea #2753.

Idea: 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.

#2753​·​Benjamin Davies revised 6 months ago

Another idea: letting users post ideas to their own profile. Such ideas wouldn’t be part of a discussion.

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #4234 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #4234.

Need the ability to exclude archived ideas from search results.

#4234​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 3 months ago

Done as of e612125, polished as of 046438f.

  Dennis Hackethal posted criticism #4234.

Need the ability to exclude archived ideas from search results.

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #2156 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #4124.

Veritula should have some way to acknowledge an idea, including a way to show that a thread is resolved, at least for the time being, without having to comment.

#4124​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 3 months ago

Emoji reactions (#2159) are implemented as of ea482fb.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2242.

Those run the risk of turning Veritula into yet another social network like Reddit or messenger like Telegram.

#2242​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 7 months ago

This is speculation, see #4106. If it really becomes an issue, I can retire the feature or improve it.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2466.

Not if I do reactions on a per-paragraph basis. I think that’s a new feature none of those sites have.

#2466​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months ago

I plan to go piecemeal by starting with reactions to ideas as a whole, then maybe to paragraphs/block-level elements down the line.

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2912.

‘Discussions’ are too narrow a term for a collection of ideas. See #2878.

While ideas should always be ‘discussable’, that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to share an idea always wants to start a discussion. Maybe they just want to put some information out there.

#2912​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months ago

‘Board’