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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Biddle who wrote (397)	7/10/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

Your idea for a correction box is ok if I understand it correctly. You'd like to be able to go back to previous post of yours, and add something (presumably a correction). This addition would be marked in some obvious way by SI (and include the date and time I presume) so that subsequent readers of the post would always know it was an addition by the originator, not part of the original post. I think I'm OK with that, but am not sure the value it adds, except for a very few times it would allow a poster to go back and indicate they wanted to correct some factual error or typo they had made. It adds the ability to correct factual errors. Only the original poster could make an addendum and it would be time stamped by SI. One can respond to ones own post with a correction but if there are several responses the correction may get lost in the wash. It would have to be clearly identified as a correction box and not appear as part of the original post body. Maybe a thirty day window for the option and maybe limited to 20+/- words. Would users intentionally post factual errors and then correct them?? My concern is one of not knowing how this new feature might be "abused" and how that might detract from what we have now. Not sure here and waiting for more discussion before I make up my mind. Agreed Good idea, again presuming that this price stamp is added by SI and can't be changed by anyone. Exactly which price would it have, the one at that moment, the previous close, what? The time of the post...and yes added by SI. Not sure how this would work. Let's say I bookmark a dozen post from 4 different threads. This in and of itself is useful to me but I can already do that in my browser and just put them into one or more folders. If I could make them public, say in a John Biddle's Bookmarks, would people find that valuable. I suppose they might (not mine maybe, but someone's) but how it evolve into a "custom FAQ". I'm missing something. I think it should be restricted to one thread. For example. The Welcome thread has a lot of posts on the privacy issue at the moment. If someone were interested in this issue it would be nice if they could flag the posts and put them in a folder. The folder could be named "Privacy Issues". It would be for users like myself that hang out on a couple of threads and chose to try to maintain the quality of the thread. Then if the folder were made available to all readers of the thread..users could review the privacy posts before posting. An enhanced search engine could help in this regard....once again all posts back to the beginning of a thread<g> However a search engine is not very selective. how it evolve into a "custom FAQ". I'm missing something. Examples I spend a lot of time on one thread. There are a lot of questions on Trading machines so I put them together and made them available home.att.net Questions on networks and Proxy servers home.att.net Questions on Multimonitors home.att.net I am not sure how it would work on standard stock threads. Perhaps "posts by MR X on management" or maybe "Posts on the takeover rumor." or "Best of the Thread". If someone chooses to spend some time trying to develop a quality thread it could be a useful tool. It would be nice if it could be set up for a 'team' approach ie shared folders. Zeuspaul