Here are 4 suggestions, 75% of them which betray my Everything origins, and roughly sorted by increasing level of difficulty. (blah blah sorry blah blah standard apology if some of these have already been covered)
add a "garbage" parameter to the "randomnode" link in the leftovers nodelet
This would yield a URL of something like:
http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?op=randomnode&garbage=<var>314159</var>
where <var>314159</var> is a random integer.
This would prevent problems when browsers cache the page when hitting the random link repeatedly.
And for ultra-ease, here is the code for randomnode (htmlcode) stolen from E2 (node_id=366162): (most of you can't see it there)
my ($title) = @_; $title||='random'; my $rnd = int(rand(100000)); '<a href='.urlGen({op=>'randomnode', garbage=>$rnd}).">$title</a>";
removal of keywords from keyword nodelet
(Editing the keywords entered for a node mentions this idea, but that it about it)
Allow some people (maybe a level power) to remove keywords from the keyword nodelet - the UI would be simple, just put a checkbox in front of each "keyword", and hit the submit button there.
I don't know how frequently people use it, but some things have rather silly "keywords" attached to them.
For example, Perl Monks Discussion has:
"why mdillon?", "why not?", "whining", "mdillon", "because", "NI!", "shrubbery!", and "patsy",
and only the "why not?" and "whining" seem somewhat relevant.
/me sees people now adding "N-Wing is a dork" and similar things there :)
Everything New Nodes (updated)
Yes, I do know about Newest Nodes here, but how about something like the new nodes on E2?
(To clarify: have the feature of the last <var>n</var> nodes here, in each category, not a list of E2's new nodes.)
I think the version here would have to either split it into categories or add a column that lists which category a node is in.
newnodes (htmlcode) (node_id=505479) is longer and would probably require some big changes to work on PM, so I won't list it here.
edev
On E2 is a little group called edev, which allows wannabes to see the site's code (but not edit it) (via the displaytype=viewcode CGI param).
I would think adding this group here would be fruitful, since instead of people just complaining about things to fix, they could attempt to write the fix, and give it to vroom (or just post it, so people can pick it apart).
Of course, a con would be that people could directly see certain people's terrible^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H unique coding style.
But then again, how many times has the pitfalls of security through obscurity been talked about?
Yes, I have a selfish reason for wanting this - so I can steal^H^H^H^H^H^H borrow some things on PM for E2 (like Message Inbox's archive feature).
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