Need feedback: Three quick ideas

Sounds like good ideas to me.

I like the idea of 1 (much like the peer directory was but searchable by alias, this wassomething that I didn't like about the peerpage before).

Number 3 is also good if you are interestsed in who else likes to ski, play game etc. Although I don't think I'd use it much, if at all, I think some members would see a benfit.

2 I am REALLY unsure about that one.

Here's a problem I see. It has not been uncommon for people to jump in a thread just to help one peer flame another without actually joining the discussion, just peer support whether they really agree or not.

I think it would be abused and used by people who just want to form little grade school alliances and hep hammer a point home.

It would be MUCH mroe beneficial to just see a list of your OWN most recently changed discussions. THere should also be a 'stop monitoring this thread' link so those four year old discussions don't keep popping up becausesomeone hit it through a search enine and added to it. There are a couple well over 2000 posts and to wait (even with a 5meg connection) for it to load all the posts so you can scroll down and see some guy has JUST singed up in order to say "Me Too", is a real pain in the butt.

But I find many people here are just WAY to petty and childish to properly use a list of contacts posts. It will turn into gang warfare here in no time.

Example: I could add my contacts, say Jules646 and HAL9000 and because I like these guys, I could make a day out of simply suporting theri posts and arguing the opponents JUST to back them and gang up on someone else, whether I actually agreed or not, which we already see, quite often even without the quick link.

I say bad idea. Sorry.

Thse others would be great though!

I'll check out someone's discussions once in a blue moon. It is not really all that vital to me - someone else might do it, but I don't care too much for that.

oh yeah... don't forget to change the order of the tabs so that people do not require that extra click in order to visit their discussions. I've posted my suggested order in another TRI thread.

I'd certainly like to give it a rip. There are several folks in TQ&A that I wouldn't mind birddogging.

Dalton

While I quite like all three ideas, I'd very much like to see a way to have a watch list and a contacts list maintained separately. Thus, I could have people whose posts I'm watching that I don't want on my contact list, and people on my contact list whose posts I'm not watching.

It would also be interesting, I think, to have the ability to see who has added you to their contact and/or watch lists.

In general, youse guys are doing a bang-up job. Hawt damm.

I would like the opportunity to subscribe to a discussion without receiving 10 emails a day. I understand why that functionality is in place, but let me explain what I use subscriptions for...

When I am going through the new discussions, I'll often subscribe to a certain one as a way to bookmark it, so that I might join in the discussion later on. I often do not have time to go through the posts, so I will 'tag' it, so that it will still show up in my discussions list.

But I would want to have a play with it first and see how things progress.

Maybe if problems arise some aspects can be removed. I'll have to play for a time before I can say for certain.

Col

Alright,

Enough is enough.

I will take a week off from answering TQ&A questions.

Starting Wednesday February 9th 2005, I will limit myself to 3 specific conditions in the Technical Q&A section for 7 days.

1. Questions directly addressed to me.
It would be rude to ignore these.

2. Older questions where my previous answer has been rejected and the peer needs additional information.

3. Questions where a peer has sent me peer mail or an email requesting my assistance.

Otherwise, starting at 11PM Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday Feb. 8th until Wednesday Feb. 16th, I will not answer questions.

Have at it.

No guarantee that I will find a life in the interim.

Chas

When I was taking a spcific Honda electronics course as part of 5th year, the Honda rep walked in all smug-like and showed us the new headlight they started using in 93.

The new SUPER lens could not be shattered, it could not be knocked in by someone in a parking lot etc.
As I was standing beside my tools, I held up a 2.5lb ball peen and said "let me have a go at it!"

He said sure, in fact Honda will pay you $50.00 if you can break it.

( NOTE: I had already seen and studied up on the new light and policy, wich states the light must be properly secured in the car by a trained Honda technician for the 'no break' warranty to be in effect).

So I told him to show me the money, in which case , with a shop full of skeptical technicians, he had to take the bait.

So he handed my instructor $50.00 out of his pocket (petty cash) and gave me the light. I placed it on a step and wailed on it with a ball peen. The thing literally exploded into a thousand pieces that flew EVERYWHERE. Just BOOOOM, with the first hit.

So my instructor laughed and gave me the $50.00.

Before taking my shop partners to the campus pub for a few beers I handed the rep the worksheet we had just done on them, along with the warranty details, he had failed to read I suppose as hw was all excited about some new light he was told to promote.

I bought him a beer anyway and we had a good laugh. HE just had to figure out how to explain it to Honda.

Lessons #1: Never tell a guy with eye protection with a big hammer that something can't be fixed or broken.

Hey, I really don't mind what you choose to do, I was just having some fun.

Doing what your wife wants you to do!

Next you'll be cleaning out the gutters and putting up shelves that have nothing at all to do with computers.

I personally hide in my little "Den of Iniquity to get away from "She Who Must Be Obeyed!" as she dare not come into my computer lab as I would have to throw her out, she keeps tripping over things causing me more work. I asked her in at the beginning and it cured her of ever wanting to come near this room ever again. Even when the junk spread out to encompass first the dinning room and then the living room she barely said a word until some people where over for a visit when "She In Doors" exclaimed that there where just far too many computers around the place so I offered to knock out a wall and take up the other room and she could have the rest of the house to herself. Of course that meant removing everything from the Master Bedroom and me taking it over. For some unknown reason she declined and now not only insists that any new computer comes in to the Living room but that under no circumstance am I to even go near the Master Bedroom unless I'm considering sleeping. I even offered to run a network lead in there and was promptly told where I could get off.

That even shut her up about complaining about all the network leads running around the place as for a little over 3 years now I've been promising to pull some cable through the house so there are not a whole bunch of CAT 5 leads running all through the house.

Man you have to get your properties right!

Col ]:)