[thesite] hosting listings on d.e.o.

[Michele Foster]

David,

Quickie question .. your four options you present below .. are they for
listing the Hosts within the current d.e.o. application.  Or are they for
creating a new evolt subsite using the evolt CMS?

I'm thinking it would be a good idea to present the options for both of the
above.

Your fourth option is the least amount of "new" work required, but that
means we create a new subsite.  Adding the ratings and comments to the
current deo structure would be more additional work.

Can you please clarify the above.  I can help put together a page tomorrow
afternoon that outlines the various options to consider (unless you want
too).

btw .. the goal is one day to link all the subsites as far as user
authentication goes. That said, at this point the user auth isn't required
for deo so, it isn't as big of an issue.  But, if it is .. then yeah, I can
see problems with needing authorization on that site.  Which means, I'm
leaning towards a new subsite .. and don't have this as part of deo.

(oops, I said more than a quickie question.. hehe)

Michele



----- Original Message -----
From: "David McCreath" <mccreath at ak.net>

| We have a few options before us at this point:
|
| 1) just allow people to list hosts higgeldy-piggeldy.
|    pro: easy to implement
|    con: could rapidly get out of control and lose context of quality
|
| 2) allow anyone to list hosts, and allow anyone to rate and comment them
|    pro: still not a bitch to implement, and even if hosts start listing
|         themselves, there is the control of the ratings and comments
|    con: could still create such a morass that it would become useless at
|         worst, no better than other such sites at best
|
| 3) allow only evolt members to list hosts (assume that if they
|    choose to list their host, they like them) and forgo ratings/comments
|
|    pro: evolt membership declares a certain quality of judgement
|    con: have to add user authentication to d.e.o.
|
| 4) allow only evolt members to list hosts, include ratings/comments
|    pro: would probably result in the highest quality list
|    con: would be time consuming to implement, requiring user auth
|         and rating/comment system
|
| I'm personally kind of leaning towards Option 2 in the short term, with
| an eye toward Option 4. The problem with that is that by the time we get
| to implementing Option 4, the category could be so lousy with crappy,
| self-listed hosts, that it would still not be great. In which case, we
| should probably stick with Option 2.
|