Comments on: Post-Hej! Backchannel reflections

By: martin

martin — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:29:50 +0000

sriram: I guess I prefer conferences where it’s possible to attend 65% of the talks and then pay close to 100% attention (whatever that means).

By: sriram

sriram — Fri, 04 May 2007 22:45:52 +0000

you will find this interesting
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/04/overhearus-corporate-gossip-2/trackback/

By: hej! 2007 » Hej DÃ¥!

hej! 2007 » Hej DÃ¥! — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:32:53 +0000

[...] First off a big thank YOU, our wonderful audience for making Hej! so lively, so warm and so full of enthusiam and cheer! You guys certainly spiced up Hej! 2007, both on the floor and on the backchannels. [...]

By: sriram

sriram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:48:54 +0000

awesome. looking forward.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:44:19 +0000

ah all good points, will try to find time soon to fiddle with some UI tweaks and introduce some of the features we’ve discussed. i’ll let you know.

By: sriram

sriram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:37:26 +0000

it will also be a good indication on where the sentence ends. one thing i notice with onelinr is that if it’s not a onelinr, it takes an additional step of looking for the original sentence.
——-
Hi my name is Sriram Krishnan
and I come from Malaysia
Introduce yourselves guys
———

Reading bottom to up is confusing in this case.

By: sriram

sriram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:35:03 +0000

yeah…should also think about not affecting the flow of the chat. Meaning users shouldn’t be forced to take any extra step (page pops up, additional mouse movements to other parts of the screen, new sentences to type etc). It all should go with the flow with minimal disturbances to hand or mouse movements.

That mark as inappropriate button could come at the end of the sentence as opposed to a fix spot at the right or left hand side of the screen, for instance, so it minimizes hand movements and increases the user’s flow with the postings..

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:26:48 +0000

ah, true. a mark as inappropriate button might do the trick . on digg-style: I was just thinking in absolute numbers. the problem with these ratings is that suddenly you get this less-initimate-rating-system-feeling in the chatroom, which is usually not so good for the community-intimacy-feeling. so a simple “Mark as inappropriate” button might be better. I too agree on the moderation options. most channels would be completely unmoderated whereas a few ones would have one or more moderators. hmm hmm.

By: sriram

sriram — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:17:19 +0000

Quick thoughts from the back of my head. I see a fundamental difference. it depends, if you want to give moderation to select few or to all.

If you want to have a selected person(s), then they could have the extra option of an “X” button next to posts.

If you want to give it to the masses, the users could digg it. But issue would be how many diggs mean ultimate deletion? Who decides this? What’s the cut off point?

Unless, you have a “flag (or flagg =P) if inappropriate” button. The moderators can then decide if the post is deemed inappropriate.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:39:13 +0000

sriram: good point about the moderation issue. i’ve been giving it some more thought and I agree that “real-time” moderation is not the nicest thing–sort of a mini-version of a chinese firewall. I have another option here: A subtle thumbs up-down icon on the right hand side of each oneliner, where users could vote up or down oneliners (mini-digg). oneliners which are voted down become faded or get some other marker. hmm, it’s a though one…

also got some feedback from beata on it. she wants to use Onelinr in her next conference, too. she thinks it could be a useful tool for the moderator to tap into.