Survey posted 2000-10-05 23:39 by Andy Selle.

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I dislike the POTM, because you can only vote for featured programs. I think all programs should be eligible. Right now, the POTM of the month depends heavily on whether the news editor decides to feature your program.

I agree. It should be OUR decision, not the editor's.

most people agree, but just because there is a poll doesn't mean it will change anything.

-JrJinfinity

Yeah, I agree with you. For example, when WFRNG (Nick D's Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator) won, it was probably solely because he was the news editor, so why not feature his program (no offense Nick)? In this system, we could nominate programs by sending them to the news editor, either via email, or by having a list of all new programs for the period, and checking the one(s) that you nominate. And also, it should be seperated by catagory. That way, something like WFRNG won't win again, progably because there will be a decent ASM program posted.

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Me and my (user nominated :) 1/50 dollar.

Actually, Nick featured his program because it was important to the funny news article making sense.
We had originally planned on manually preventing it from being nominated in that month's POTM, but due to a miscommunication (and a bit of poor timing), it slipped in.
--
Phil

And then it was removed. And I thought that it was the file archivers who chose featured programs.

No, it is the news editor(s) who choose the featured program.

It's anyone. Any staff member who sees a cool program can feature it. Even Magnus.

Or Henrik.
RIGHT, HENRIK?! :)

--BlueCalx

Do you mean that nick's random numbar generator didn't get the merit to win? you're wrong :-)

For all we know the editors could be gettin paid off to have someones dumb a$$ program to win POTM.
Just a thought...I'm not sayin they do that. They are a good "honest" staff.

Err... you don't win anything by winning POTM. Why would *anybody* pay anything to win it? Anyways most programmers are teenage nerds who don't *have* any money ;)

I'm proud to be a teenage nerd. :)

What annoys me is programs like code converter get featured rather then stuff like airhawk and fastlink. It seems like it matters more who made it rather than what it is.

I totally agree. Having all programs eligible to be POM would be more fair. What ends up happening is that the TI-89 programs are always the featured ones. And even if a TI-83 program were to creep into the list, it wouldn't stand a chance with the TI-89 assembly programs. They should definitely change the way nominees are chosen. One way, which might be the easiest, is to base it on the number of downloads. The 5 programs downloaded the most would be nominees. Another way to do it, would be to have a small poll on each program's profile page which could say something like "Would you nominate this program for POM (yes/no)." This obviously would be very difficult because they'd have to go back and put that poll on every page.

Somebody else may have said this, but I think that there should be a POM for each calculator. So there'd be a TI-83 POM, a TI-85 POM, etc. I think it would be more meaningful for a program to be labeled the best of it's platform. The current way the POM is set up, really doesn't mean anything because the programs that are made for calculators that aren't used a lot, don't stand a chance.

I think that any program that is one of the top 5 download programs of its calculator should automatically be a featured program. For it to be one of the top 5, it has to be really good.

My last suggestion is that authors should also be featured. Maybe the top 10 authors with the most downloads should be featured. It would be nice to be featured.

That's all I have to say except that ticalc.org should develop some way for us users to decided what programs are featured.

Sorry, but I had one more thing to say. :) How can somebody vote for the nominees in the POM if they don't even have that type of calculator? How does that person know that they program is any good? Most people, I feel, just vote based on it's title and possibly the screen shots, and not on how good it actually is. If there is a POM for each calculator, I think there would actually be more votes and those votes will be real.

And that's really all I have to say.

If your idea was a program it would crash your platform due to a fatal flaw. If your idea was actually implemented, then VTI would be on the list for a long, long, long while. Then, when Rusty Wagner finally gets around to updating it, it will be on the list for a very long time again. And, since it is a very high quality program, everyone would vote for it time after time.
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Me and my 1/50 dollar.

That's easy to fix: When a program wins POTM, it should be ineligible for future POTM nominations.

Or maybe just the next month or if it's updated

Or just the month it was uploaded in.

Then, as an author, you'd be saying "Yeah, my game will be selected 2 months from now, barring any smash-hit games comming out."

That's simple to fix: Make it the most downloaded of the week. My favorite was that idea up towards the top of having a 'nominate me' option on each one. Featured programs are too heavily biased and it detracts from the honor of wining the POTM
(Lets see, what is another way of writing 50 cents?)
My $5+$7-$0.25+$3-$7-$1.50-$6.73

If you do the calulations, you'll find that your
opinion is actually worth a negative amount.

For "50 cents," try one of these:
4 bits
10 nickels
5x10^8 nanodollars
13.5^2-11.5^2 cents
nDer(x^2,x,250) millidollars
fnInt(x,x,0,1) dollars
e^(pi*i/2+ln 2) quarters
invNorm(.6914624673) dollar

um...you really thought that one out, huh? Somebody has a little too much time on their hands. :)

Some of us support Unix/Linux, in the end we spend far less time rebooting to fix system problems & actually have much more time to get work done :)

I can't help it if the place I work for supports Unix can I? Especially not when I'm the System Admin right?

-JrJinfinity

I'm not so sure that's a good idea. What about programs such as Ion (83+) that are always in the top 5? How many times will it win?

ok, if the POTM was for ALL programs, it wouldn't be the program of the MONTH. and personally i think it should be terminated or at least put the results on the front page if you keep it, b/c i never check the results, it's too much trouble

Yeah, where do you find the winner of the POTM? I think I found it once...on accident. I agree with the people who said there should be a "nominate me" button on each page.

i like to eat cheese because it is good
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