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File Invitation System Announced
Posted by Michael on 1 April 2005, 05:46 GMT

We will be moving within the next month to an invitation-only system for all BASIC programs in our archives. This will involve several stages. All BASIC programs will be removed from our archives. Backups will be kept and will be available upon request for authors who don't have a copy of their work. Now don't panic about your quadratic solvers just yet - you will be able to upload your programs back into our archives. The difference is that from now on an invitation code will be required to do so.

Each author in our archives will be given invitation codes, one per each ASM program. The assembly authors can then select BASIC programs to approve from a list of pending potential files. When an author is out of codes, that's it. This will accomplish two things: The number of BASIC programs and assembly programs will be at most a 1:1 ratio. This should clean up the quality of our BASIC programs and ensure only the innovative and well-written programs are in our archives. Second, we hope this will increase the number of program reviews as authors will be inspecting all of the BASIC programs closely. In the case of older programs where the original authors may no longer be active, we will be manually reviewing those programs and will put them into the approval queue as needed.

Before we finalize this drastic change, we are soliciting comments about the idea. Please post in this news article with any suggestions. In the interim, BASIC programmers can e-mail basic-invite@ticalc.org to request that when we purge the archives, their programs be automatically placed in a potential queue to be re-added. Please put, and only put the file id of your program in the subject line (one per e-mail). The content of the body does not matter. You can find the id of your files by the number in the URL of their file information pages (e.g. "12345.html").

I understand that many BASIC programmers are going to have misgivings about this, but please try to keep an open mind and realize that in the long run, our archives will be more relevant to visitors.

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Re: File Invitation System Announced
roboy Account Info

I think you're making a mistake by introducing this system. First, everyone will only invite their own BASIC programs, leading to a tyranny where only the great ASM authors get to have their BASIC programs at all, seemingly as an afterthought. Secondly, and most importantly, ticalc.org will lose its distinction among other sites for the ability for anyone to be at the same level as the pros and as a nearly free file upload site.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 23:01 GMT

Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Kevin Boyer  Account Info
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Um, check the date buddy. APRIL FOOLS JOKE!
Although this seems to have invited some nessessary talk about what to do about the 90% of Basic programs that are junk (excluding, among others, Kevin Ouletts games), ITS A FREAKING JOKE!!!!

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 23:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Shawn Zhang Account Info

>>90% of Basic programs that are junk

90% of ASM is junk too and a lot of it is actually BASIC

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 15:26 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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>> 90% of ASM is junk too and a lot of it is actually BASIC

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense at all...you're saying ASM, "a lot of which is actually BASIC," is 90% junk...that's the same as saying 90% of BASIC is junk...I, honestly, don't see your point. You're saying 90% of ASM is junk but that a lot of ASM isn't ASM.... :/

Reply to this comment    4 April 2005, 04:15 GMT


Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Kevin Ouellet  Account Info
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look at the post date

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 23:06 GMT

Re: File Invitation System Announced
anthony C  Account Info

While I know that this is a April Fools Joke, there are undoubtedly going to be people who visit Ticalc.org, and actually think this is a real system. I think this should be red-boardered. Just my 2 cents.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 00:36 GMT

Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Derrick F.  Account Info

It probably will be, after April 1st.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 01:00 GMT

Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Andy Janata  Account Info
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All AFJ's get red-bordered.... After 1 April of course. :)

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 01:06 GMT

Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Ole Jørgen Brønner  Account Info
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Allthough this obviously is a aprils joke I think it is a good idea to do sometheing about the large number of bad basic-programs.

The original (joke) idea is not good, as it would make people make useless asm programs to submit their basic-programs.

A far better idea would be to go through the list and delete very similar/obvious usless programs, and send a mail to the author with a warning.

It would also help to provide some kind of search function (this might already be presen?)

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 01:21 GMT

Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Ole Jørgen Brønner  Account Info
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Maybe adding all similar programs in a own under category?

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 01:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Shawn Zhang Account Info

>>It would also help to provide some kind of search function (this might already be presen?)

Its at the top of the screen, under "Search"... Who would have expected it hmm? :-)

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 19:38 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Ole Jørgen Brønner  Account Info
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The question is how good it is...

Reply to this comment    4 April 2005, 13:19 GMT


Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Wait until tomorrow. It'll turn red then. I'd like to know how many people e-mailed them about this.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 01:26 GMT


Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
José Sousa  Account Info
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i wander.... what if it don't get's red??? what if they want to really give the news... how can we distinguish the real news.... now it came the matrix ideology to my mind... lol... well... i think i will be great to see the post don't became red.... lolol... that would be fun...

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 02:28 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
KermMartian Account Info
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That would be funny if they tricked us into thinking a real article was fake was real. :)

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 16:25 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Shawn Zhang Account Info

Fortunately it is fake, otherwise I would be getting a lot of spam, hate mail, and death threats for my opinions from Kevin Oel-something.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 19:36 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
anthony C  Account Info

Well, as it was predicted, it has turned red. April Fools!

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 22:28 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Heh, you're right, that would be something clever AND entirely new.

Reply to this comment    6 April 2005, 23:10 GMT

Re: File Invitation System Announced
cloudofstrife  Account Info

I hate to come to the rescue of Kerm, but what about all of those people who write hordes and hordes of *good* BASIC programs that write very few ASM programs?
coughscrewedcough

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 02:23 GMT

Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Coolv  Account Info
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LookAtDate

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 02:57 GMT

Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Andy Janata  Account Info
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Which of Kerm's programs are good? (Granted, I haven't really looked at his programs, but from what I can recall, he's mainly a PITA.)

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 07:01 GMT


Re: Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
cloudofstrife  Account Info

Yes, I did notice the date. Just in case the ticalc guys were pulling some sort of double April Fools Joke on us, I thought I might... Okay, I was stupid.

Yeah, I haven't looked at many of Kerm's programs either, but this was an opportunity too good to miss.

By the way, what's a PITA?

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 22:48 GMT


Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
elfprince13 Account Info
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I AGREE
LIKE ME
I HAVEN'T BEEN POSTING AS LONG AS KERM(OBVIOUSLY) BUT I DON'T RELEASE CRAP, OR IF I DO I MARK IT AS DEMO WHICH IS LATER REPLACED BY NON CRAP

Reply to this comment    4 April 2005, 16:17 GMT

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