I agree that there is too much useless junk clogging up the system. I suggest we have polls, and people vote for programs. This way, only what is needed, or what people want is kept. Either that, or you could have a section for "bad" files. I wouldn't want to make someone feel too bad about having their work placed in these folders, though.

I agree. I think that there should be a poll. However instead of making diferent folders for the programs based on quality I would just add a little "satisfaction gauge" next to the file description. That way you won't have to put someones program in a "bad" folder but it would be alot easier to look for the good programs.

Yes, I agree that a rating system would be very handy, maybe have a system where people can vote on a scale of 1 to 5 stars on a program, and when you view a folder, you can set a filter so that you only see programs rated at a number of stars you specify.

I think this would definitely help people to sort out useful from useless without having to take the time to look through lists of hundreds of BASIC files.

So what do you say?

I don't like stars, how about 1 to 5 smilie faces?

Nah, smileys are too corny. I like the stars.

For more flexibility, you could do 0-10 stars :)

Yes smilie faces are corney. It was late at night. I really need to get more sleep

How about check marks? Or maybe just numbers?

or hexadecimel FP numbers...

or digits of PI?

good idea. :-P This is a calculator site, isn't it?

how bout digits of G, to show how close the program is to perfection?

G? Gravitational constant? What?

I'm guessing he was referring to the golden ratio, in which case he meant rho, not G.

This still doesn't solve the problem of having 2245 basic 83+ games and 1550 basic 83+ math problems. It takes a minutes to load those pages at school with a relatively fast connection. It takes like five minutes at home. We either need to sort out "bad" programs or sub divide each of those categories.

perhaps items with a low rating for a certain number of weeks could be automatically deleted.

Yet again, this runs into the problem of specialty programmers with a narrow audience getting their very good stuff deleted.

That's what the subfolders are for.

And actually, yes it does. Say, you only want to view the programs with the highest rankings? There goes most of the files, and therefore, your page to load is much smaller. See? Problem solved.

I agree, maybe programs should be put in order of rank. The one file i have ever uploaded now is near 1000 downloads, which i think is great. If this were to get deleted, it wouldn't be good for me, its like a back up copy for me, when my PC or calc has an issue, which it frequently does.

I use this program all of the time (See link) I created it, and help a ton with geometry or any kind of math involving area. Please look at it.

Adam

TICalc.org could log the IP from which each downloaded file is requested. If a file doesn't recieve a certain number of downloads in say, six months, it is moved from the main directory to a special "junk" directory. People who download a file and don't like it should be able to remove their IP from the download list. Of course, robots would have to be banned. Perhaps the threshold should be the current uper quartile of files in order of number of downloads.

But then TICalc.org would have to keep a huge database for every file and their downloads. Besides, would <i>you</i> like to have your IP address recorded every time you download a file? I wouldn't. As well, there are ways of hiding your IP address.

Um.. it actually is recorded, just in a 'flat' document... nearly every site out there does this... (unless they turn it off... but considering the statistics probably aren't real-time, but generated from the logs, I doubt it)

That's how we figured out we had 500M requests in the first place! :D

I don't like this idea. There are too many unknowns. Take, for example, a file from the archives that we ALL have and love, yet there's no need to download it because we already have it (except for the rare times where our computers die and we need to redownload everything, for example). If it gets removed, then people will have a hard time finding it. There should be permanent ratings on the usefulness of a file as it is.

I agree. You don't need to download VTI more than once. Still, I'd like to know why it appears to be downloaded thousands of times per week. That seems a bit excessive.

people just love it that much i guess....

That, or someone uploaded a cyberbot to the cite with the sole purpose of downloading it several hundred times a day. If you look close enough you can find a conspiracy anywhere. :)

I have referred VTI to multiple math teachers who now use it frequently in their classes...people really still do download it...

I think it might be linked to from a bunch of emulation websites -- bandwith leeches.

I've seen links to the page from some websites with no connection to ticalc

The perfect plan! Leave the current archive alone but make a new one with only Kerm Martin files in it. That would severly reduce the amount of files in the regular archives :) This is meant totally as a joke and is not meant to "flame" Kerm Martin or the quality of his programs. I respect everyone on this website and the quality of their work.

Then why did you post it?

to make a few people laugh ;)