Ah!! Thanks so much! I couldn't find it. I've got 5 stars on copper and abbreviation. Not too many... but hey, it's better than none, I guess.

The stories from 2007 deserve more praise as well because the stories that followed were often inspired by those original ones

Yeah, I really appreciate the stars, because I know when I find a really good "undiscovered" story, I always star it... and I like to think that others star similarly.

Unforunately, I think one of my 5s, was, indeed, a modification of an earlier story. Copper, I think.

EDIT: On that same note, what about reports? Only one of my stories has been reported and it has been reported twice. It was "repeatedly" - I couldn't take it anymore. I knocked him down and just walked over his head repeatedly until his screams subsided.

Does that really deserve a report??

Last edited by sethg (2009 March 22, 7:24 pm)

Hi,

before I start with a new thread I thaught I place it here.

I think it is a "problem" that new stories tend to be placed at the very end after a very short time. I think it would be better if there are two rows.

On the left side you see the top three to five stories (you can look at them at a glance).
On the right side, however, there could be a random order so that each story has the chance of being "discovered" easily.

Another way might be that a "stared" story comes to the top again (as if it had been edited). Thus new good stories have a chance to score higher...

What do you think about that?
Was this discussed earlier?

Peppi

Last edited by Peppi (2009 April 03, 2:43 am)

Peppi wrote:

Another way might be that a "stared" story comes to the top again (as if it had been edited). Thus new good stories have a chance to score higher...

Yeah I've been thinking about that. One way would be to use something like Amazon "Was this story helpful to you?" Yes  No

Ideally  the review results should affect the story ratings. But at the same time, it's different for everyone. If people answer a story as being helpful or not, they react emotionally (eg. reported stories is 95% of the time an emotional response to "offensive" content of sexual or political or religious nature..). So I suppose the rating of helpfulness would reflect the emotional appeal of the story, and henceits usefulness for remembering.

It's on my "post -refactoring" to do list. I think the current reports could be safely turned into "This story was not helpful to me" votes.

mdspencer wrote:

I would like to see stories marked as 'adult/mature' as there are some that are a little 'raw' to say the least. That way, if one of my children are taking an interest in my learning, which they do, I can avoid them.

How about an option to either hide one story or all stories form a particular member if you wish?

Hiding all stories from a particular member: LOTS of people contribute adult/mature stories plus plenty that are not, so this would result in an impoverished set of choices.

I like the first alternative better -- have a chili pepper option along with a star and a report.  The chili pepper would not be a negative evaluation (unlike reports), just a judgment that the story is "spicy." Next step would be to allow a "children's" display setting that hides anything with a chili pepper.

No idea how difficult this would be of course.... but one member was posting that certain frames wouldn't display at all at a school library computer -- we figured out it was because of a key word (anal?) somewhere on the page that triggered the library screen.

The most stars I've ever gotten is 4

While I can see the issues others mention, IMO, the stories function is working fine.  Sure, I could think of 20 different features that could be implemented, but that's just something to distract me from actually studying japanese.  Mostly, it is my narcissism that would like to see my name next to a highly rated story.

yukkuri_kame wrote:

If you think that really good story has been unjustly left behind, edit it slightly.  It will return to the top of the page and it will have a second chance.  If it hasn't gotten 2 or 3 stars after being edited one or two times, it probably isn't helpful to others and let it go.

Yeah, that is the way I think is best for now.

However, there is something else  I am thinking about: What about giving stars a "date of expiry". Let's say a year. It might be difficult to program, but it would have advantages:

Sometimes, people link to very helpful pcitures. But when the link is out of date it still has many stars. This way, the old "story" would fade out after a while. Moreover, a story with a current context might be not easy to understand in a while, for examle my story for the "Obama-song" (Yes we can, yes we can, until everybody yawns...).

Moreover, a good 2006-story might be exchanged for an even better 2009-story much quicker, if it is not approved by newer stars...

Last edited by Peppi (2009 April 12, 10:05 am)