Got Facebook?
Social Networking is becoming ever more useful. Several companies are working on providing frameworks that support cross-site social networks. What this means is that it would allow one website to recognize users from another website. This is part of the reason for the Better Poll application at Facebook that I made.
Better Poll aims to provide you with a new tool. Vote in polls that your friends made and you’ll be able to add your own answer, something people will be able to champion, if it’s good, funny, entertaining, helpful, or whatever. If you make answers with staying power, you’ll get to create your own poll yourself. It’s really designed for creative people, but I’m trying to make it accessible enough to encourage others to become more creative. Please check it out if you have a little time. I suspect that once it catches on and people understand what it’s doing, it will propel Litmocracy forward.
Calling All Soothsayers
Following is a list of changes that I am about to make to Litmocracy. Please reply either in disgust and frustration or with praises and kudos as you see fit. Constructive criticism is the best. The (cc) mark below indicates items that are a result of others’ input last time I proposed changes. So you have some sway. And you have a few days to sway me
* Submissions are no longer presented in pairs, but one at a time.
* The ranking table is now the only way to vote and it appears on the right side.
* (cc)The item to add next to your list will be presented without the author. I’ve noticed myself being biased by the byline. If you must know, you can click the permalink.
* (cc) Selecting a category (from Table of Contents) will use it as a filter so you’ll get an item from that category to add to your list.
* Visiting the homepage will present the next unranked submission regardless of category.
* (cc)Voting statistics for everything lumped together are now available from the home page.
* (cc)Voting statistics will show the top ten pieces. However, a category may have fewer than 10 pieces in it.
* Your ranked list can now contain up to 40 submissions.
* You may have up to 8 submissions in the running at one time
* In order to post, the ratio of items in your list to submissions you have in the running must be at least 5 to 1.
These changes are intended to provide you all with more control over the mixture of pieces from different categories that get published in Literal Translations. This also uses a simpler software architecture that makes my life easier.