Comments on: Lets fix Muti

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:37:21 +0000

Hey Neville, please do. I’ll update this post or create a new one and add my thoughts to it!

By: Neville Newey

Neville Newey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:09:31 +0000

Guys, thanks for your suggestions and JBagely thanks again for initiating this.

It looks like there are at least 3 separate things to be fixed, they are 1) Expansion of User Profile, 2) Registration Confirmations and 3) Downvoting/Moderation/Spam reporting

We are going to treat each seperately starting with number (3).
Please see the proposal up on Muti now. JBagley I wanted to post a copy of the proposal here too, but its in Markdown format and I fear I may screw up the formatting. Can I send it to you?

Regards

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By: red

red — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:31:45 +0000

Those are all good points, but I disagree with your third one. Profile pics and user blurbs WILL turn it into a Digg clone. I haven’t used Digg in months because it’s so bloated. I used to love it, but I frankly stick to Reddit these days.

A spam-reporting option is a good idea. PLEASE don’t bring back the downvotes, though. I’m sure there’s only a couple of guys misusing Muti. Ban their IPs. And advertise.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:21:50 +0000

I agree, I just looked at muti and see that the fact that iMod being down has taken the top 2 voted positions! Freaking crazy, let’s get that down voting on again and remove the fluff.

I support your initiative Jason!

By: Nils

Nils — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:55:15 +0000

These are some good points Jason!
I think most importantly muti should fix the registration. At least a valid email-address and a activation is necessary for new users.

It should be visible who voted but also who down-voted a entry.

Cheers,
Nils

By: Neville Newey

Neville Newey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:30:44 +0000

@Jbagley big Kudos to you for taking the lead on this. There is nothing greater than involvement from “the community”. Criticism is great, but its hard to fix when there are no(few) novel suggestions, hopefully there will be some great ones coming out of this.

regards

By: Marcel

Marcel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:24:26 +0000

I suggest that we stop calling it “down voting” & call it “spam reporting”.

In that case, if you wish to report a post as spam, you need to answer some questions like:

“Do you feel that this is against our _Post Policy_?” (link to policy)

“Is this post trying to directly gain a profit?” (ie. is it an advert?)

If enough people feel that the original post violates an AGREED policy, then the post should be removed.

Perhaps there should be a community agreement on what that policy is?

@DaveDuarte – can we not HuddleMind Muti’s policy?