[Theforum] +1/-1 Author Info Blocks

[Michele Foster]

Madhu,

I'm not sure how to rate your vote on this one.

One line you say I approve it in concept .. but then you provide two
paragraphs worth of changes that you would like to make to it.

A lot of your original changes/suggestions were taken into consideration
from comments on thesite.

So, what is it you are saying?  I don't understand how you can be a "+1" if
you don't like what's there.

Are you a +1 but only if your changes are taken into account?

Or

Are you a -1 to what's there now. ?

Do we need to break this down and vote on each individual piece of
information??

Thanks,

Michele

----- Original Message -----
From: "Madhu Menon" <webguru at vsnl.net>


| At 05:06 AM 12/10/2001, Michele Foster typed these words:
| >(1)  Author's block of info as displayed .. photo if one exists, plus
number
| >of articles written average rating and total number of ratings.  This
block
| >of info is styled using the sidebar class.
|
| +1 to concept.
|
| I feel, however, that there are just too many numbers aka stats out there
| and some of them don't even mean much to me. For example, "Last login" is
| surely a waste of prime space. Oh yeah, I expect to hear an argument right
| now about how it indicates "community involvement", but it doesn't.
Logging
| in doesn't mean I did anything.
|
| I feel the only stats that should remain are:
|
| User since
| Articles written
|
| and *maybe* "average rating", but Adrian has pointed out earlier on
thesite
| that pre-judging the worth of an author may discourage readers from
reading
| his or her other articles. I agree with that view.