I've been looking at some Monk's user info nodes. Some of us seem to update them on a regular basis, others don't. It would be nice to see when someone has editied their home node. Perhaps we could have a small mark appear beside a Monk's name whenever it appears as a link, if they have edited their home node in say the last 24 hours.

I'm asking about this because at the moment there is no easy way to spot Monk's who do regular updates and I ususally find them interesting.

Nuance

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RE: Monk's who do regular updatees of their home node
by nuance (Hermit) on Jun 03, 2000 at 04:52 UTC
    Ok, so most people don't seem hostile to the basic idea i.e. it would be nice to be able to see when people have updated their home node. The basic objections that I can see here are:

    1. Too much clutter on screen
    2. Too much trouble to implement
    So how about this:

    We create a new page similar to newest nodes, but it only has links to recently changed home pages. When you sumbit a change to your home page, you are given a check box that says "add me to the list". If you check this box then your page would be listed for the next twenty four hours.

    This would allow anybody who's not interested to ignore it. It would also allow each user to decide if a change they have made to their home node is "significant". If someone goes to the bother of regularly updating their home node then they probably want people to see it (otherwise why bother?).

    This new proposal seems to me to be:

    1. relatively easy to implement
    2. easily ignorable for those who are not interested
    3. leaves control of whether to publish with the monk who owns the node

    Comments??

    Nuance

    Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!"

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      Well, I would rather like the idea of having a Notify me when this node changes checkbox on every node, but as I would mainly use this for home nodes anyway, your proposal is very elegant as a solution. I'm all for it !

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      Very elegant indeed! I'm also for this.
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RE: Monk's who do regular updatees of their home node
by swiftone (Curate) on Jun 02, 2000 at 20:39 UTC
    I don't think I like this idea. (Sorry Nuance.)
    • First, links to users is probably translated when the comment is entered, and not at run-time (although I don't know, haven't looked at the code) so it would be non-trivial to implement
    • Second, it would complicate the otherwise graceful simplicity of user links.
    Certainly something in the users description (such as "Last Bio update: ") would be fine, but that wouldn't really give you want you want.
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RE: Monk's who do regular updatees of their home node
by Adam (Vicar) on Jun 02, 2000 at 20:35 UTC
    I have found many an interesting home-node on this site. And I encourage people to work on their own home nodes as well as to forage out and explore other people's. But I'm not sure we need to clutter the screen with 'recently updated' flags.
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      What if changed home nodes were reported on Newest Nodes ?
      Vroom: Is that feasible ?
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        If that's feasible that certainly sounds like a good idea to me. Best of all worlds.
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        What determines that a change to a home node is significant? What if I make a change and then notice that I misspelled something so I update it again. On a post the updates are not recorded - how do we differentiate between that and our home node updates?
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