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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 1 of 23 30 October 2011 at 8:43am | IP Logged |
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Would you like to see the forum's best posts in one thread? If so, please vote "yes"
If you cast a "yes" vote, I encourage you to give your input as to what the thread should include. If "yes" is a clear winner, I'll pm the admin and ask him to set it up, make it sticky, etc, provided your suggestions have made such a thing necessary. Edited by leosmith on 30 October 2011 at 8:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 23 30 October 2011 at 8:48am | IP Logged |
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I voted "yes" so here's what I'm thinking. All the posts with over a certain number of votes would automatically
appear the the "best of" thread, with a link to their original thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5237 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Korean, Haitian Creole, SpanishC2 Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 23 30 October 2011 at 9:49am | IP Logged |
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There are so many important posts that honestly it would be hard to find any specific
topic (the first L-R description, for example) any faster than it now is to simply search the forum. I suppose though if the threads were hyperlinked-to, and organized by theme/topic/ language etc, then it could work just fine. Although given the do-it-yourself nature of language learning as it is discussed on this site, I sometimes think that a wiki would be the best way to organize things. This idea is of course not directly on topic, but as long as we're asking... 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4834 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 23 30 October 2011 at 11:00am | IP Logged |
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What a wonderful idea. I have found the thread " Assimil vs. U.S language programs" to be invaluable. I will have a look for specific posts within that thread.
I think two of your posts should be in their too, namely "its not just about Pimsleur" where you discuss forming a learning plan, and I know you did another one about developing listening comprehension which I have found incredibly useful, although I cant remember what it was called. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5185 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 5 of 23 30 October 2011 at 1:17pm | IP Logged |
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I say yes, although as dbag points out, there are entire threads which are valuable, as well as single posts about a topic. Therefore an automatic system might not work to the full advantage desired, and so I agree with a wiki from Leurre's suggestion. Wikihtlal (reminds me of Nahuatl). I think a Wiki that is editable only by Senior Members and above is a good suggestion for this.
In terms of incorporating into a thread, perhaps a Wiki could be set up with the thread just linking to it? I don't know about the forum's technical capacity to hold an internal Wiki. That sounds like mumbo jumbo science talk to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 6 of 23 30 October 2011 at 2:33pm | IP Logged |
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I like your suggestions. Some comments.
If we start looking through the forum for what we think are the best posts, without counting votes, we are basically saying our opinions are more important than the collective forum. I know voting is at times unhelpful, but can't think of another way to decide that doesn't require a ton of work. This is my assumption, since I'm not a programmer. Regarding the wiki - do you really think it would organize the data better than the forum? Also, I wonder if the admin would even be willing to do this, since easy sorting is one of the bennies of becoming a paying member. And regarding sorting currently, it's pretty bad, from the standpoint of a non-paying member. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 7 of 23 30 October 2011 at 2:45pm | IP Logged |
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As a side note, I'd like to have a thread with "best one-liners" or "funniest posts" or something like that. Maybe put
it under cultural experiences or something like that. This is somewhat inspired by the immortal best of craigslist. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6968 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 23 07 November 2011 at 6:45pm | IP Logged |
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It's not a bad idea, and I think that starting by wading through posts with the highest number of votes is the least flawed way. There are at least a couple of problems though. Because voting only began a couple of years ago, I suspect that most votes are distributed among posts starting from 2009. Yet I find it unlikely that the quality of the posts since 2009 is unusually higher than those before then. Thus a compilation of the best posts would be biased toward those from 2009 or later.
Another problem, albeit lesser is that votes can accumulate on anything that strikes a chord with readers, including posts that express political or ideological views. Those and ones with biting comebacks should be treated separately as leosmith suggests above. If time isn't an issue, I'm open to working slowly with several others to put together collections of "best" threads. I may as well put my Pro Membership's enhanced searching function to good use. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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