I used to spend my spare time sifting through the archives, finding cool programs/games to get, but I don't do that anymore because of all the crap that's in it. I only go straight to what I know is there, and I'd like to go back to the old days. I completely agree with the second option, which is filtering out bad files. There's going to be some real arguments if the staff selects the files that are crap and removes them or filters them, or if they're moved to a "crap" folder. I think the people should decide what is good and what is bad, and even then, all the files should stay, and the people get to choose what they get to see when they visit the archives. It makes perfect sense to me. That way no one person gets blamed for what's filtered. And it wouldn't cause all that hassle that option one has.

I agree. Just look at some of the folders, especially the Basic Files ones. There's so much junk in them that it takes a long time to load the page. It's also a pain to look for good files to download, when a lot of them are mainly pointless junk or abandoned demos.

I completely agree...it all comes down to the idea of:

Do you want to be in control of what appears on the aite or have absolutely none at all. So it's the archiver who decides or the comunity.

I believe that the archivers should decide; they're unbiased, while the community is not.

Aw. But why should we listen to you? You're biased.

Well, it is the community's choice what to download. It is best if the archives respect the community, even if the archivers are trying their hardest to rate based on the best programs.

hahaha....me unbiased :-)

Sure...I am highly biased, I just know that if I did anythign about it I would probably be "let go" then file uploads would be back to how they were not so long ago :-)

*laughs uncontrollably*
Yeah, the idea of Morgan OR me being unbiased is hilarious. However, I'm sure you meant in terms of adding or rejecting files, in which I think we're both pretty fair.

You're both on the top uploads list.

Hmmm, so we are, but what's your point?

Seems like a conflict of interest.

Would you prefer someone with less experience?

That's true...I guess if someone uploaded a really stupid, pointless prog and a file archiver deleted it, the person might, if they were really nasty, flame the archiver through e-mail or something.

I like #1,#2, and #3. They would make some people very happy, and some very agitated. I guess it requires finding a 'balance' so to speak.

I like option # 3.

btw for 68k folders could the source code directory be split into c and asm?

(n/t) if you are going to be picky, ticalc.org post thing

I think there needs to be a lot more file archivers who have a good knowledge of the TI calculators and have the archivers screen the files. There are way too many basic math programs that have ABSOLUTELY NO POINT! We also need to start reviewing our current archive to delete the useless ones so one can find a good program quickly.

YAAA!!! DEATH TO STUPID BASIC MATH PROGRAMS!!!!!!!!!

There are so many frickin' Guess the Coefficients programs. Someone needs to make a FPS Kill the Coefficients game to cancel them all out. However, I reserve this claim for BHW Software.

Drew Worthey
Head Programmer of BHW Software

I think all the games should stay because if I am not mistaken thats what the most people download. I think it shouldn't be the quality because not everyone makes quality games and we all should be honest. I worked hard to make some of the more recent games I have posted and don't think it's fair to have a select panel choose whether it should be removed or not. I think they should all stay except when you have duplicates the people vote on which is the best.

I say if you go through and delete programs that say "This game sucks, so dont download" or just programs that have been on for two years and are have not gotten to 100 downloads and delete those, you would delete a nice amount of your archives.

I like the idea of setting a certain number of downloads a program needs within a time period. This is better than getting ratings from people because there are so many programs only a few would have a lot of people rate it. I think if a program description makes a lot of people want to download it, it deserves to stay.

I could right a great description for any of the peice of crap programs but that does't mean they are good. The amount of downloads doesn't have anything to do with how good the program is, suppose someone downloads it but it sucks so it just sits there on there computer.

I can say sucks and crap right?

Maybe there can be a section for rating stuff so if you like the game you rate it 'good' or something, but if no one rates it it's considered 'bad'. That way if no one downloads it then it gets deleted but you still have a chance to rate it.

I've seen plenty of good programs with lousy descriptions and terrible ones with descriptions that make them sound really good.

The most useful program I've downloaded on this website was a BASIC polynomial synthetic long division program for the TI-85. It has *1* download in the past week!

but then you could go "downlode happy" on yourfiles and get past the mark in 10 minets