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Easier way to browse these threads?
Hey guys, kind of an off topic question but it relates to our community thought I might post it here under the 997 Turbo forum as I know most of you and value your opinion!
Would an easier (more visible) method of voting “up” or adding to the authority of specific posts be useful to our community?
Say, if Vivid or Awe answered a question or posted a statement about tuning – would it be beneficial to easily vote these up, be able to identify those informative posts, and if given the tools, summarize them into a coherent article linked to the thread?
I’m specifically referring to long multi page threads (like the fantastic “Area under the curve”, that contain both factual and informative opinions but littered with one liner posts, misinformation, and sometimes questions that don’t add much meat (or have been discussed to death) in the thread. Thinking of all the time I spend to get through this stuff to get to the few posts that are the real gold nuggets.
Some excellent examples are – “Which ECU tune is the best” or “Recommendation’s for radar detectors”. I mean that’s been beaten to death – with a few hundred threads started about it – most opinions with no factual info. So someone new to the community has to go in and search, kill a lot of time reading through a 10’s of threads before getting to anything worthwhile?
Say such a “voting” method (of individual posts within a thread) resulted in some key informative posts (essentially the cream of the crop), would be extracted from a long thread and then summarized into an informative article – would you (as a community of enthusiasts) be compelled to keep such “summarized” documents current. If such collaborative tools were provided - would you have a vested interest in keeping such articles both current and factual as new input to their respective threads grow?
Curious to know your opinions and if such community collaboration would work and be utilized - selecting quality information out of a thread and curating/editing the summaries? Would you take an active part in editing and curating these?
Would an easier (more visible) method of voting “up” or adding to the authority of specific posts be useful to our community?
Say, if Vivid or Awe answered a question or posted a statement about tuning – would it be beneficial to easily vote these up, be able to identify those informative posts, and if given the tools, summarize them into a coherent article linked to the thread?
I’m specifically referring to long multi page threads (like the fantastic “Area under the curve”, that contain both factual and informative opinions but littered with one liner posts, misinformation, and sometimes questions that don’t add much meat (or have been discussed to death) in the thread. Thinking of all the time I spend to get through this stuff to get to the few posts that are the real gold nuggets.
Some excellent examples are – “Which ECU tune is the best” or “Recommendation’s for radar detectors”. I mean that’s been beaten to death – with a few hundred threads started about it – most opinions with no factual info. So someone new to the community has to go in and search, kill a lot of time reading through a 10’s of threads before getting to anything worthwhile?
Say such a “voting” method (of individual posts within a thread) resulted in some key informative posts (essentially the cream of the crop), would be extracted from a long thread and then summarized into an informative article – would you (as a community of enthusiasts) be compelled to keep such “summarized” documents current. If such collaborative tools were provided - would you have a vested interest in keeping such articles both current and factual as new input to their respective threads grow?
Curious to know your opinions and if such community collaboration would work and be utilized - selecting quality information out of a thread and curating/editing the summaries? Would you take an active part in editing and curating these?
Last edited by pureporsche; Jul 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM.
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