I'm in a current short-lived reprieve, hence how this post is coming to be.
Anyway, I've been thinking for awhile now how to further improve PTE. Monthly banners have helped keep things interesting, but I've been contemplating something a little bit more on the crazy side. I think its benefits outweigh its drawbacks.
Essentially, disabled comments.
Now let me explain.
Every post has somewhat run on comments, more comments means more of an urge to post, less comments equals the inverse. This system is inherently flawed as: What happens when zero comments? Basically PTE must straddle on borderline deletion, while the burden of its existence rides on making people comment. Very faulty.
The pros of no more comments? You just come here, read posts, continue on with your life. You collect the information without having to feel any need to reply. The new system will be view based, so you can return and read it again over and over again if you still want to help PTE.
I'll be starting the no-comments on posts, and if it seems to be really working out, disabling comments on all other parts of the site, and on the Dev Blog.
In this faster moving world, the one thing we all don't have much of is time. And it's time PTE took to that mindset.
Anyway, I've been thinking for awhile now how to further improve PTE. Monthly banners have helped keep things interesting, but I've been contemplating something a little bit more on the crazy side. I think its benefits outweigh its drawbacks.
Essentially, disabled comments.
Now let me explain.
Every post has somewhat run on comments, more comments means more of an urge to post, less comments equals the inverse. This system is inherently flawed as: What happens when zero comments? Basically PTE must straddle on borderline deletion, while the burden of its existence rides on making people comment. Very faulty.
The pros of no more comments? You just come here, read posts, continue on with your life. You collect the information without having to feel any need to reply. The new system will be view based, so you can return and read it again over and over again if you still want to help PTE.
I'll be starting the no-comments on posts, and if it seems to be really working out, disabling comments on all other parts of the site, and on the Dev Blog.
In this faster moving world, the one thing we all don't have much of is time. And it's time PTE took to that mindset.
