RE: Simple Changes With Radical Results
Thing about the stars right now is that slider represents how much money and power a voter wants to give you. It is this feature which freed up the whales to vote on simple things and not award $1000+ every time they voted. So to keep from awarding crazy money for simple things we would see a lot of single star votes with big rewards. I am not against the star idea. I prefer it to a downvote actually. I am an avid disliker of down votes. I do believe we need to be able to report plagiarism, spam, and abuse but I consider those things different from a down vote.
The star idea IS an appealing one and does work great at all these shopping sites that have tons of content flooding them. We will have more content flooding here than they do if things progress as expected.
It's a thought. Biggest thing is the site feels so sterile or clinical. Star may not be the way to go..... It invites a response though and that is what we should look at. Granted.... One star voted where you love the material but want to hedge your bet, maybe not the best. The slider is confusing to anyone who doesn't do a bunch of research though
It does feel that way and it does not scale to take advantage of real estate. My primary monitor is a 43" 4K TV... instead of reading on it I am almost always staring at a much smaller side monitor. The 4K TV with this site is mostly a wall of white with tons of unused space and some text down the center. It is in beta so I do expect it to get better, though it cannot do so without feedback. Posts like yours are feedback IF it is seen by the people that matter or can bring it to a person that can do something with it.
People using 4K monitors and/or TVs is going to increase.... IMAGES like this will become more common:
You could show me 3 feeds at the same time on this monitor.
Yeah.... It just feels hard to get noticed at all. I am growing followers, but all I am really inspired to do is post about what I think could be fun and/or improve the site..... Not viewed as content and as a result overlooked. Think I need to break for awhile.... Just read/comment/vote. Sucks sharing and not feeling your seen/heard.