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Free Republic Software Update for November 25th, 2003 (Update #4)
Posted on 11/25/2003 5:17:51 AM PST by John Robinson
Edited on 11/25/2003 7:59:47 PM PST by John Robinson.
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To: John Robinson
Thanks! Looks great.
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posted on
11/25/2003 9:22:57 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(It was so cold today I saw a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.)
To: general_re; John Robinson
I'm not disagreeing. I like the idea of boolean (w/ wildc*rd) searching, and that would certainly be facilitated with article word summaries generated by the software (at least I assume that's how it's generally done with databases too large to search full text).
I'm just thinking about ways to help users in producing more complete, consistent and useful sets of keywords; bearing in mind that good keywords will often not be words actually used in the article, or will be words too common to be included in a software generated word-dex, or words used in an idiosyncratic fashion. For example I sometimes index articles about anti-americanism and the like with the keyword "5" (for "fifth column"). Say I was posting an article about American communists in the "McCarthy" era. If I supplied the keyword "communists," simply from that, and/or from examining the article, and/or examing keywords commonly associated with "communists," the software can ask if I also want to included (any of) the keywords "5," "treason," "CPUSA," "McCarthy," "Espionage," etc.
Running articles and user supplied keywords through this software analysis, and providing an opportunity to add/review keywords from a software generated list would (it seems to me) tend to produce more consistent keyword indexing. Users posting articles would get a sense, and a list, of "consenses" keywords used by other freepers in posting similar articles.
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posted on
11/25/2003 9:25:01 AM PST
by
Stultis
To: Quix
Thanks but no thanks. I'm quite happy with my mouse.
To: Sabertooth
Click on your name on the upper right hand corner of the Latest Posts page.
On the resulting page, you will find a link for "My Subscriptions". You can change the order of your sidebars, how many articles are in each, and also what the background color is for that sidebar.
You can also add other sidebars or remove sidebars and such as described on this thread.
Whoa. A spell checker just appeared. That certainly threw me.
To: John Robinson
BUILT IN SPELL CHECKING!!!And too cool with the drop lists. Thanks! I really needed that.
125
posted on
11/25/2003 9:38:33 AM PST
by
Stultis
To: steveegg
#990000 for the title background and #FF0000 for the links background?
EEEP!
To: Mo1
You'll need to make a table and set the table's bgcolor now.
To: justshe
I have always thought the sidebar should be on the left side. The light blue is good but the sidebar would look better if it were set off with a thin dark blue border.
To: sweetliberty; John Robinson
OMG !!! ... OMG!!! .. Check it out .. We have SPELL CHECK
Hot Dang .. FR IS THE BEST!!!!
129
posted on
11/25/2003 9:43:50 AM PST
by
Mo1
To: Stultis
"You have added keywords A, B, and C. Previous articles with keywords A, B, and C often include keyword D. Would you like to add keyword D to this article?" Something like that?
If you do that, though, you're adding a keyword-search to the posting process, such that it'll have to search through the index to match the current user-supplied keywords with other user-supplied keywords in other articles, and then draw out associated keywords that are not included in the current submission, in order to present them to you as possibilities. You could do that, but I'd want to know more about how often the search function we're already proposing would be used, how often articles are posted - and hence, how often the index search would be used in that context - and what kind of loads we're talking about for the server for all these new search functions. It's easy enough to imagine these things, especially when you have unlimited imaginary hardware to run it on, and someone else to sit down and do the actual coding ;)
130
posted on
11/25/2003 9:49:05 AM PST
by
general_re
(Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance.)
To: Stultis; general_re; John Robinson; JohnHuang2; kattracks; Lazamataz
Running articles and user supplied keywords through this software analysis, and providing an opportunity to add/review keywords from a software generated list would (it seems to me) tend to produce more consistent keyword indexing. Users posting articles would get a sense, and a list, of "consenses" keywords used by other freepers in posting similar articles.'Course it also might consume too much overhead, or slow down JohnHuang2 and kattracks too much.
BTW, John, how about making more of the statistics (that normally only moderators can see) visible on user pages? It would be fun to see how many articles some of our champions, like John and kattracks, really have posted, or how many replies champion chatters like Lazamataz have posted (without reading the article).
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posted on
11/25/2003 9:49:43 AM PST
by
Stultis
To: Stultis
I wouldn't want to embarrass anyone. :-)
To: John Robinson
You'll need to make a table and set the table's bgcolor now Well .. since I'm a bit brain challenged .. could ya give me a hint or point me in the right direction, because I'm not sure if I know how to do that
133
posted on
11/25/2003 9:51:22 AM PST
by
Mo1
To: John Robinson
Let's just say I hate pink.
134
posted on
11/25/2003 9:51:57 AM PST
by
steveegg
(Voter ID? Since Craps Doyle vetoed, RECALL - countdown is now 36 days)
To: Lead Moderator; John Robinson
OH!!!!!!
This is WONDERFUL.......a spell checker!!!!! Thank you, John. This is like Christmas early!
135
posted on
11/25/2003 9:53:14 AM PST
by
justshe
(Do you trust a Democrat to protect America?)
To: Lead Moderator
Whoa. A spell checker just appeared. That certainly threw me. All spell check does is make sure that you have the wrong idiom :-)
136
posted on
11/25/2003 9:54:17 AM PST
by
steveegg
(Voter ID? Since Craps Doyle vetoed, RECALL - countdown is now 36 days)
To: John Robinson
I love it! Ooh, just noticed a spell checker!
137
posted on
11/25/2003 9:54:31 AM PST
by
knak
(wasknaknowknid)
To: John Robinson
I Love the changes!
I have a suggestion..
Is there anyway to add an option to delete all the mail at the same time instead of one at a time..
IE: Click here to check all items..
Then all items, (frmail) could be deleted.
:)
138
posted on
11/25/2003 9:55:00 AM PST
by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: John Robinson
BTW, dark red/red would make breaking stand out :-)
139
posted on
11/25/2003 9:55:20 AM PST
by
steveegg
(Voter ID? Since Craps Doyle vetoed, RECALL - countdown is now 36 days)
To: Stultis
JohnHuang2
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