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
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roboy
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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.
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1 April 2005, 23:01 GMT
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anthony C
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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.
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2 April 2005, 00:36 GMT
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cloudofstrife
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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
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2 April 2005, 02:23 GMT
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