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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon why-el

Restructured a bit to make more sense.

Open tanishalfelven opened this issue 9 years ago • 8 comments

  • Added a new section to help with selecting next story pull.
  • Changed "I started with..." as was no longer relevant, and added a link to the NOVEL.md
  • General restructuring

tanishalfelven avatar May 11 '15 03:05 tanishalfelven

:+1:

Ghoughpteighbteau avatar May 11 '15 03:05 Ghoughpteighbteau

Oh, btw, you may want to just refactor much of this out into contributing.md, which is a standard github file for how to contribute.

Ghoughpteighbteau avatar May 11 '15 03:05 Ghoughpteighbteau

I'm not crazy for the idea of voting based on the number of commentors. What if the comments are negative? Maybe the number of commentors who say that they want the pull request to be added?

n-r avatar May 12 '15 02:05 n-r

This methodology would make people shy from writing a bunch of negative comments. Also, it's very easy to scan through and make sure it was supportive conversation, and not negativity.

tanishalfelven avatar May 12 '15 03:05 tanishalfelven

I very much agree with you, but my intrest is clearing up that "gray" area. For instance, a hypothetical troll may post something inflamatory which would get many negative comments. However, someone could mistake those comments for constructive critisizm. The opposite thing could happen, too, where constructive critisizm is misinterpreted as hostility. How do you suggest we deal with this?

n-r avatar May 12 '15 03:05 n-r

@n-r I've got an idea, although it might be a bit to grand. What if we enforce all comments to be prefixed with either a +1 or -1, to denote negativity/positivity, that way there is no ambiguity. Maybe even add a 0 to denote no opinion (And we assume all comments without these are 'no opinion'). If we got people to do this, we could write a bot that reads the most recent commits and finds the ones with the most positive feedback, thus automating merging and making counting votes easier.

tanishalfelven avatar May 12 '15 05:05 tanishalfelven

+1, @tanishalfelven, that is a splendid idea. Could I suggest losing the one and just beginning each comment with "+" or "-" to denote positivity and negativity, respectively? Any comment without a prefix would be considered neutral. I don't have the experience and expertise to write such a bot. Can anyone else help out with this?

n-r avatar May 12 '15 11:05 n-r

I'm sure I could do it, although I wouldn't have time until the weekend. I'll write it open source, and throw it into Heroku or something.

tanishalfelven avatar May 12 '15 13:05 tanishalfelven