So what would you like to change?

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• olliemaitland - Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - link

  I third this, this would be very useful.

• Anton74 - Tuesday, August 9, 2005 - link

  The option to view posts since the last visit is great, but something seems to not work quite right (on my computer anyway). For example, just viewing these comments for the first time, 5 out of 8 posts are shown as new, for some reason, while they all should be classified the same. I found earlier - with another article - that the same posts keep being shown as old, and everything else, existing or new, continues to be shown as new since the last visit - there seems to be no change for subsequent visits. Since I'm connecting through a proxy cache (Squid), I tried shift-reloading the page, which made no difference.
  
  Second, I'd also like to be able to both rate and post. I understand the argument that you don't want people to rate others down simply based on disagreement, but quite frankly, that can (and probably already does) happen whether someone's part of the discussion or not. I suspect that those "spite" votes will be outweighed by legitimate votes the majority of the time. Could this at least be enabled on a trial basis?
  
  Also sometimes I'd like more than 1 vote for every 10 posts.
  
  Overall the changes are good, especially considering what's already in the works for the near future. The new layout is very nice. Anandtech.com continues to be my very favorite among other, similar sites. :)
  
  Anton

• Anton74 - Tuesday, August 9, 2005 - link

  I just thought of something, but I'm not sure if it's feasible to implement:
  
  What if people were given rating privileges (weight, number) based upon the average rating that they themselves have received in the past, and possibly tie in the total number of comments they have posted? Kind of a reputation-based rating.
  
  Just a thought.
  
  Anton
  

• qat - Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - link

  This is a great idea. In regards to giving people who post more worthwhile stuff more slack, why not do it in a ratio?
  
  I have 1 post, it was modded +1, so I now have a 1:1 worthwhile post. As long as that stays above 1:1, then the person gets X as their priveleges. That way, even if i've posted 300 comments, a person who has only made 10 still is capable of having the same rights.
  
  Not everybody is a very avid poster, but many would likely rather just go through and moderate threads (Worth Reading/Not Worth Reading markings)
  
  Up until recently, I never posted, but would vote, based on wether or not a person presented any new information or what have you. It's all relative to the reader.

• cosmotic - Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - link

  With a system like that, you would be hurting people that rearely post comments that are in the top 2% of quality.
  
  Some people only post when its worth posting, and their posts are really good. Some other people post completely worthless posts constantly. Your going to need to find some ballance there. A system where people with more posts have higher voting weight would be seriously easy to exploit.

• Anton74 - Thursday, August 11, 2005 - link

  There's some truth to that, indeed. However, people who constantly post worthless posts should have a very low rating themselves, and therefore (almost) no voting privileges no matter how many posts they have to their name.
  
  People who rarely post comments, but make it quality ones, should have high ratings, and a certain degree of voting privilege. Like you said, a balance should be found here. Maybe a relatively low minimum number of posts should be looked at, or a minimum over the past week/month/etc. All in support of their own average rating, which should be the main criteria. This is beginning to sound complicated...
  
  The reason I thought of including the number of posts in this (aside from the more important rating based privilege dispensing), is that otherwise one could post a single really good comment just to receive a high rating to gain voting privilige, and then abuse that voting privilege ever after, just based on that one good post.
  
  Either way there may be some room for exploitation. It may overall be a big improvement though (it better be if someone were to go through the trouble of implementing this :).
  
  Anton
  

• smn198 - Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - link

  I like that idea. It may actually encourage people to write something worth while reading. Not sure how much more overhead it would add doing all those averages.

• tappertrainman - Tuesday, August 9, 2005 - link

  I would still like to see the poster name moved over to the left-hand side. Put it either up top, or below, but it needs to be on the left. Just my opinion. Thanks!
  
  James

• friedrice - Tuesday, August 9, 2005 - link

  I would like to see a firefox plugin that lets me know when something new is on Anandtech. This could be taken even further and notify me if someone has replied to a post on the forum. :D

• cosmotic - Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - link

  Just what we need, another firefox plugin. Have you tried RSS?