The Next Generation of Hypography

skuzie · 12-12-2006

1. How about a wikiHypography where all subjects of discussion are categorized and linked to the threads of the forums, and the main points from discussions, ie lessons learned. Think of it as a knowledge base of our collective reasoning and thinking process. There are many excellent threads here imagine if we could build a knowledge base on top of them to be refined and perfected rather than all those good threads being washed aside as time passes.

2. More stats for each user, example which group a person posts threads the most in, example user X posts 45% of the threads in Biology 14% in Mathematics... etc etc .. this way you can find out peoples area of interest, im sure theres an easy way to calculate that.

3. Have a Top 10 section where people vote to calculate the top 10 books/movies/games/music of the month/year for example.

4. Able to generate a list of not common keyphrases from a thread that show different sizes according to their frequency of usage. Something like this:

43 Things

How they make the text bigger for more frequent phrases and your able to filter by locations.

KickAssClown · 12-13-2006

I really want to emphasize the Hypography Wiki idea. It would help to keep track of what we have and have not covered. Threads can be linked to the talk pages of the wiki, so that our discussions can be integrated into a more complete knowledge basis. Like with Wikipedia (another chance to integrate), we could create linkage to informative articles, threads, and papers.

it also can help with the search engine issue, as once threads are categorized into the wiki we have a whole new layer of relations from which to search. Not to mention the potential for members to maintain personal hypography pages and watch threads, Wiki articles, and other sites of information.

To comment on Micheal's list, #2, #9, and #10 are all the same issue. A change to the rep system, I feel if properly employed, would adjust the way that hypography is "played" because as it has been noted Hypography for many is a kind of intellectual game. We have clearly delineated players, objectives, procedures, rules, resources, conflicts, boundries, and outcomes. All the formal elements of a game. Of which Rep plays a very important part, being the resource of hypography.

How the Rep system relates to the mentorship idea is that If you take on a student, appretice, etc a small reputation reward would be a good way to encourage that kind of continued behavior, serving as a positive feedback mechanism.

Same goes for recruiting new Hypography members. A small rep reward for referal (contributing to the hypography social pool) would be appropiate.

I would also think that the Rep issue ties into #2 of Skuzie's list. In that the rep system could be used to generate statistics about members and their contributions to the society that is Hypography. Right now my issue with the rep system is it is far to generalized to glean any detailed (read: specific) information. I don't know why, for instance, a member has been awarded rep or for what.

This could be, in theory, incorprated into the rep system.

Harry Costas · 12-13-2006

Hello All

I'd like to see the new people being helped along. With information and respect.

There are some fantasy ideas out there and some far fetched ideas that flood the forum.

Maybe a selective part for deeper discussions.

InfiniteNow · 12-13-2006

I'd like to have liveweb (webinar) lectures, where a topic expert (or near expert) generates a lecture and presents to a crowd, then is available for questions after. Much like a symposium or special talk, but online.

"To join the webinar, click the following link. You will see the presentation material on your screen. For audio, please dial .... on your phone. Click here to enter your time zone and get the start time fo your region."

pgrmdave · 12-13-2006

Maybe we could integrate audio into the flashchat, to support webinars - that could simplify things.

InfiniteNow · 12-13-2006

From what I understand, VoIP is pretty expensive.

hallenrm · 12-13-2006

Very interesting discussion indeed,something that is really to liking. I have been wondering,is it possible to attach sound files,may be 8 bit only,so that members can listen or say things they cannot understand/convey otherwise?

Boerseun · 12-14-2006

I'd like a rethink of the whole poll system.

We've got it, it's a great resource, but it's flat; one-dimensional. We need more options that could be auto-generated with passcards or something.

For instance, if you're asked in the poll whether you smoke or not, the results would show that an individual voted who doesn't smoke, is twenty two, caucasian, lives in city X, has an annual income of $y, educational level of z.

Every voter only has to fill out the passcard once - afterwards, he/she just have to tick the checkbox for the poll answer. Obviously we can't control the truth of the user info, but if the polls get big enough the noise will go down.

And with a decent polling system in place, we might even see some decent polls! There've been a couple good ones in the past, nobody can perform any interesting analyses based on the results, seeing as it's one-dimensional.

That's my only contribution - apart from that, Hypo is just dandy. Keep up the good stuffs!