Demonstrate the Suggestions Generator

[denise]

Title:
Demonstrate the Suggestions Generator

Area:
demonstrations

Summary:
We should demonstrate the suggestions generator, so people can see what its output looks like.

Description:
We now have a suggestions generator, as described in http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/791.html . The problem is, it isn't linked anywhere on the site map, because we want to run it through its paces a bit before making it *too* widely known, to make sure that people figure out the best practices for its use (little details like the fact that HTML is stripped/escaped, meaning that <em> and <user name=denise> don't display).

So, we should post a test suggestion, showing people what the output will look like, and inviting the people who are following this community to poke at it a bit. Then, once we're confident that it works the way we want it to, we can add it to various sitemaps here and there.

(I now predict, of course, that everyone will immediately vote that they hate this suggestion in the poll that will accompany this suggestion. Because you're all a bunch of smartasses like that. I say this with the utmost love, you understand.)

Poll #707

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (33.3%)

Should be implemented with changes.
12 (36.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (15.2%)

(Other: please comment)
5 (15.2%)

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Needs moar sparkletext.

[denise]

Like this?

[yvi]

...

That's... disturbing.

[angelikitten]

Maybe more like this?

[afuna]

I was going to say should be implemented as-is, but then I saw your comment in parentheses, and wanted to switch to shouldn't be implemented. But then! I couldn't just choose that, I had to explain, so here I am with "other".

[rho]

I vote "already has been implemented".

[zvi]

Demos are lame.

If you'd named it "Test the Suggestions Generator and Suggestions Process", I might have voted for it.

[ivorygates]

zvi, your icon hurts me in the bad way.

[ivorygates]

So, we should post a test suggestion, showing people what the output will look like, and inviting the people who are following this community to poke at it a bit. Then, once we're confident that it works the way we want it to, we can add it to various sitemaps here and there.

This... confuses me.

Do you mean you want to put it through basically a closed beta in a restricted area so we can see if we can break it? Because the stuff about code stripping &c seems to me that it could profitably be covered in the userdoc.

IN BIG SPARKLY LETTERS

[denise]

I reject your sparkly letters and substitute my own.

[ivorygates]

Maybe These?

[denise]

*makes mental note to suggest stripping sparkly text from comments* ;)

[ivorygates]

hmphf

[rainbow]

*giggleattack*

[azurelunatic]

But HTML in suggestions is fun for the whole crew!

[sophie]

I actually do think that at least the <user name="blah"> syntax should be allowed, because I can see that being useful. But that might be confusing if nothing else is.

Maybe I should submit this as a suggestion?

[zarhooie]

Meta-suggestions!

[melannen]

Links would be nice, too. At least being able to link to pages on the site, even if it strips out all links that aren't to dreamwidth.org pages. (We can put in urls, sure, but that's ugly!)

[kate_nepveu]

It could really use a preview option.

[zvi]

+1

[triadruid]

Agreed.

[jana]

It seems only users with paid/premium accounts can submit a suggestion, because users with free accounts can't post polls...

[yvi]

Actually, users with free accounts should be able to post polls to paid communities (which dw-suggestions is), so this is kind of strange...

[afuna]

Hrrrm. Does that only apply if you're the maintainer of said paid community?

[yvi]

Oh, right. That's the problem :/

[denise]

*facepalm*

mark even brought up that problem, but we both thought it was that users with free accounts could post polls to paid communities, period.

Back to the drawing board.

[melannen]

Yay! Lots of polls to fill out! ...needs more tickyboxes.

[rainbow]

EQUAL RIGHTS
FOR
REPLICANTS
GENERATORS!

eta: Ooops. I thought you said "Demonstrate *for* the Suggestions Generator" ...

::gd&r::

[vampwillow]

"Should be implemented ..." implies (to some extent, at least) that if I click it then I believe it is moderately-plus urgent, as opposed to "Would be nice" which supports it but not quite as urgently. (Bit like "I want" and "I'd like" I suppose, and maybe language/nationality dependent to some extent). Anyway, nice mechanism.

[dragonfly]

I think your poll choices don't allow enough expression. You should add:

-OMG, I'd give my first-born to see this implemented!!!!!!

-Sounds good to me




mood of this comment: somewhat tongue-in-cheek, though srsly, I'd like to be able to select that first one sometimes.

[ivorygates]

You know, the polls should have those range of dots where you can select all the choices and then grade them liek one to ten. Because that would give more flex.

[7rin]

I'm with the "needs at least some HTML allowed" crowd - at the very least <a href=""> and <user name="">

I'm also with the "preview" suggestion 'cause I hate not knowing how what I've been typing is gonna come out looking like.

ETA: Having browsed through the latest batch of suggestions, I think there also needs to be a "doesn't apply to me/not interested (note: not interested != shouldn't be implemented)" type of answer, so that you (generic) can see how many people are uninterested, since that'd give more balance to the actual votes cast.

[triadruid]

All of these are excellent suggestions.

[azurelunatic]

Also, heh. I wasn't expecting all the bells and whistles I wanted, and it's interesting to see how many of them are echoed by the peanut gallery. *cough*preview*cough* *cough*spellcheck*cough*