Subject: Re: [TS] Colaborative ThoughtStream?
From: Ben Darnell (ben@thoughtstream.org)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 23:46:00 EDT
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:28:41PM -0500, Matt Bardeen wrote:
> </LURK>
Good to hear from you again, Matt.
> Each "Thought" has an owner. The owner can specify whether a thought is
> public or private. Public thoughts would be open to review by other
> collaborate . The links from a thought to another thought could be
> strengthened with each click to signify the strongest linked ideas in some
> manner (i.e. moved to a top of a list, displayed in a slightly brighter
> color, etc). The number of links thought has could affect the weight as
> well.
I agree that each thought should have an owner, but I'm not sure if it's
appropriate to set security policy on a per-thought basis. The model I
have in mind uses a mind-wide security policy. The user could have a
private mind and a public mind, but either all or no ideas in each mind
would be protected.
On the second point, I agree (that's what the link.score attribute
that's been hanging around uselessly in the source code since the
beginning was supposed to do). OTOH, you don't want to overemphasize
browsing habits, or else you get a mess like everything.blockstackers.com
(although I think it's fine as long as you don't create links based
solely on browsing patterns)
-Ben
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