Perhaps you could ask each of the authors to review each of their files and then send a list of their files that they feel are useless. These particular files could then be removed, if the staff feels they should.

After this has been done, a committee (or something similar) could be created to review each of the files in archives and delete them if they're useless or junk. Programs worth being there would stay.

But that's just an idea. Other than that, I'd go with #2 or #3.

The really difficult thing about this decision(s), is that, no matter what the final decision is, somebody's going to be unhappy with it, whether it be a downloader who is looking through the hundreds of files, or a person whose file has been sent to a junk folder, or a beginning programmer whose demo was blown off the web.

thats why nothing should be deleted (just very very very similer programs)

see above post by Joe Pinsonault, A.K.A. me

or... we could have a rating system, in which a kind benevolent commitie is only allowed to use.

> Perhaps you could ask each of the authors to review each of their files and then send a list of their files that they feel are useless.

Ever heard of the fifth amendment?
Ok, so maybe ticalc.org isn't bound to it, but that idea would probably create a very nasty atmosphere on this site.

How about if an author wants to they put up a notice when oyu click on file info that says
[author name here] is condering removing this file [file name here] what do you think
o Delete It
o Keep It
o No Opinion

i think that numero dos would be the best choice overall, because it filters out the 'junk', to a degree, but we dont pissoff the people who uploaded the 'junk' by delting their files

I like the ranking system idea. It would not decrease the time for file uploading, and some of the stupid pointless programs are sometimes usefull to people who want source code.

I think that most of the "useless" programs are just that - useless. If someone is smart enough to look through ticalc.org for a program as simple as a quadratic solver, they can just write their own utils.

I have to strongly disagree with most of the comments that say that repeatative programs should be deleted. The web site is (mainly)used to upload programs into a personal and collective archive. For most of us, we use the web site to further test our programs and to see how others like our programs( download stats). In my case if it wasn't for the publishing of my beggining programs I probably wouldn't have ever got so interested in programming!(+ Vortex Productions would have never been created) The last thing I want to see happen is new programmers being turned away from ticalc.org because they aren't "good" enough.

If it is knowing what other people think of your programs that you want, I think that a rating system would be the best. Download statistics really don't show how good your program is -- only how good you advertised it.

Hey, how about this idea: Have it so that we can post comments about a program on its file description page! That way, people can easily explain what they think of the program, ask questions, et cetera.

MWM

Do you mean have a discussion board type thing? Like the one we're in now? We already have the reviews, but i have thought a lot about how cool it would be to have a discussion for each program, but that would probably get hard to manager, and in the end might not be worth it. But I think it is worth giving thought to.

I was thinking the same thing. That way we wouldn't have to write some long reveiw thing that has to be so long and be approved if we only wanted to say some simple little thing like, "DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM!!! IT'S JUST A PEICE OF CRAP!" Ya know, like I don't want to write a whole review, I just want to get a simple mesage across.

Well, if you are going to write a review on a program, you'll need more information than just, "DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS PROGRAM!!! IT'S JUST A PEICE OF CRAP!" You'll need to back up your claims, of course, or your review won't be uploaded.

That is why I am saying that there should be a discussion board for each program. That way I don't have to write a book to get my thoughts through.

I was actually surprised the other day...I saw a program that had a review that said that in its essence, and somehow wasn't rejected. However, I totally agreed with the reviewer...the program DID suck...

I strongly agree with you.

me too

i think we should organize the archives, or get the search back up, and add a feature allowing you to search just part of the archives, ie-

search: 89/asm/games for "LightsOut"

sry for the shameless plug ;)

yeah, how long has this site been without a search.....

What's wrong with the way the search works now?

it wont let you search the archives for a specific calculator, this would help a lot when u are trying to find a program

um, I think with google if you searched 89-assembly-games (with dashes...this searches for phrases instead of words) it would filter out anything that didn't have that exact phrase in it...however you would have to learn exactly how ticalc names each category.

You can also put "quotes around the words" to Google a phrase.

aaaah ... "Google" is the name of a corporation based in Mountain View, CA -- NOT A VERB!
They "0wnz y00r 3r41n"!
*pet peeve, sorry*
I think I'll just continue on my way Mozilling this website, Logiteching my comments and Intellimousing my way down the page.

hey, thats the same thing im doing!

>> I think I'll just continue on my way Mozilling this website, Logiteching my comments and Intellimousing my way down the page.

You have a Logitech keyboard, but a MS mouse? (I think IntelliMouse is from MS)

whats wrong with that? I have a dell/microsoft keyboard and a logitech mouse. (Ok, so its not really the same as him like i said above, but pretty much the same i guess) My keyboard is just a pretty standard piece of equipment, but my mouse is a brand new mx700. I love the mouse, highly reccomended.

I have a Dell keyboard, microsoft mouse, Panasonic monitor, and IBM speakers on a IBM cpu. Oh and did I mention the Logitech joystick and Hewlett Packard printer?

The only reason that I am not reading Old English when I scroll down this page is because the english laungage evolves.