The *Unoffical* Sciforums Community Project: Morpheus

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That said, blogs are an interesting idea and would probably be popular if there's additional button for sciblog under member's name or in the profile. Everyone could have a free rant and have their little soap box.
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Seconded.
I'd write such a blog.
 
Hi Stryder, I think the whole idea is fantastic and would definitely be willing to give time, expertise, and money......ok maybe not the last one but time and expertise definitely!

I like the blog idea and I also would like to see more comprehensive member profiles. Maybe even the ability to join interest groups?

Locke
 
Well not quite, I wouldn't want to know what someone's favorite movies are, but I may want to know about where a member stands in his/her views (such as politics, theology, etc.), what they're interested in scientifically, what we'd have in common intellectually. Profiles could show what blogs we contribute to, things like that. As for the groups, those would also be groups for a particular discussion, a place to go and contribute knowledge on a certain subject.
 
Stryder said:
I've rewritten this post to try and be a bit clearer. I see the community here as being stuck with just a forum (sciforums, admittedly the Encyclopedia was an addition however it's more of a joke because it's content is obviously not what you'd normally find in an Encyclopaedia (Unless someone had been writing in the columns in pencil).
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You dare besmirch the Integrity of our Encylopedia, Sir? Which is filled with voluminous Articles on every Subject from Anus to Zoophilia? How dare you, Sir!

I speak Not only for the proud People of East Korea when I loudly and vociferously Harrooumph! in your Direction, but also everyone else unfortunate enough to peruse our Pages, sir! Why, where else will you find full-length Articles on the Importance of Happeh Science, or Myuunitarian mysticism, or of choosing an Offensive Avatar? I am profoundly horrified at your Attitude, Sir, and I bid you Good Day!

Good Day!

RtH Geoff
 
Stryder said:
I picked up the Domains www.scivillage.com and www.scivillage.net a little while back, the Scivillage name is something that Lixluke (coolskill) termed sometime back in a thread where he put forwards a hypothetical village in which all the community members participated in and built together. It was active for a bit and well is now lost in the background of the 'About members' section.
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Oh : I also nominate myself for Chief Rat Catcher and Genitalia Constable.

Good Day!

RtH GeoffP
 
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i have seen time and time again the need to upload various files, not just pictures, from my hard drive.

for example:
i have a PDF file that when printed, makes a great illusion. i would like to share that file , but how?
 
well ... I think all your ideas are great =) but I guess I'm not the best person to grasp totally what is going on. Nevertheless I think you should try it and see what happens from there =) (I'm kinda crappy at this )
 
Signatures
I guess what could be done is a form of Signature hosting, since currently Sciforum's doesn't allow signatures due to bandwidth constraints. It might be possible to have an Image signature (or something crafted in the GD+ library through an online Form) with a personal link that can be placed as a Signature for peoples posts.

However I know some might object to such a system because they'd prefer the whole place to look barren of signatures. Which would obviously mean needing some sort of user defined option deciding whether or not to see other peoples signatures.

Stats/Statistics
I've even got an idea for a community stats system, where a User can either do a questionaire or pick directly how they feel about specific subjects to generate an 'Ego stat' (what they think they are like), during their posting lifetime people will be able to vote once on how they feel that person is in regards to that post generating a stat that reflects how each individual member sees them. There can then be stats created to show how the overall community see's itself based on the ego stat overlayed with how the community see's itself through their voting. On top of that there could be a stat voted on by members for how they see the community.

The stats themselves would show any disparsity in regards to members, are they outsiders to the community or in tune with the community. Are they "liers" in the sense that there perception of who they are is not shared by the community.

The stats will likely be from multidimensional arrays, i.e. Political view: Left-wing, Middle, Right-wing, Non-Political (4 dimensions)

This gives some interesting ideas in regards to how such stats could be viewed, their might be simple 2D composite graph showing all the stats or perhaps a 3D graph with the ability to rotate and zoom (Should the dimensions become larger arrays)
 
jlocke said:
Well not quite, I wouldn't want to know what someone's favorite movies are, but I may want to know about where a member stands in his/her views (such as politics, theology, etc.), what they're interested in scientifically, what we'd have in common intellectually. Profiles could show what blogs we contribute to, things like that. As for the groups, those would also be groups for a particular discussion, a place to go and contribute knowledge on a certain subject.
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Btw, it was your post that gave me the idea for a Statistics system, since you mentioned what you wanted to learn about other people in regards to their standing.
 
GeoffP said:
Oh : I also nominate myself for Chief Rat Catcher and Genitalia Constable.

Good Day!

RtH GeoffP
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I have considered the potential of building some sort of Online Village, obviously though as a project and since it's to do with Science there must be some way to convert it into a true Science project, like the whole village being a large Ratmaze and the community a mixture of Researchers and Labrats... er.. I mean Assistants(Although not so much inclined towards "The Prisoner".)


Sciforums currently is like a Campus with a lecture hall and no recreational facilities, this means the Students are keeping themselves occupied with their own activities which might messup or destroy the lecture hall. They need some skate ramps, allowed their student unions, perhaps a gym, swimming pool and other all sorted goodies, so they don't get bored and turn on us (The Moderators).
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The above quote is something I wrote in the Mod section, what it's trying to explain is how I see sciforums as being currently, alot of bored students with alot of time on their hands that aren't happy with being stuck in a boring lecture hall. Sciforums by definition is that boring Lecture hall, as you can tell a few of the students like to jazz it up a bit and before you know it they are chain-balling the place and calling anyone that attempts to calm them down a Nazi dictator.

Admittedly Lecture halls are built for a purpose... yes... it's in the name, Lectures. A bit like a forum for Science Discussion was initially built for well Science discussion.

The problem is that between lectures or in this case, Serious discussion there is a lot of tom foolery. But this is people wanting to be Entertained with nothing to entertain themselves but themselves and as we know this has led to a lot of drama on sciforums (and Drama queen parades)

Some of the Faculty want to see the Lecture hall just used for Lecturing, others understand that the Students want to be able to slack off a bit every now and then and let their hair down, this is the reason why currently it's all been very Anarchistic in the Lecture hall since the Faculty Agrees to Disagree and the Students are running rampant.

So one of the Faculty asks the Vice Dean, "Why don't we do some stuff to keep the students occupied? That way the lecture hall can be a lecture hall and the students don't have to be Rebels."

The Vice Dean replies, "Well we can do this and that..."

Well that Faculty member realise the Vice Dean means well, however the Severity of the students rebellion is tying him up from actually forwarding proposals and getting a Rec. room built. The room as nice as it sounds, might not be enough to stave the overall rebellion, so the Faculty member decides... "Well why not ask the students what they want? That way we can find out if it's worth putting the outlining plan and costs together and actually build something they will use, rather than something we hypothetically think they want."

Well this is where we are now, You are the Hypothetical Students and I as the Hypothetical Faculty member have put forwards the question "What facilities would you Students like, so you aren't all squeezed into this small crammy lecture hall with it's restricting lecture rules and disciplining. As obviously this shoe horn cramming of people in one room is driving some people stir crazy".
 
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Hmm maybe an online game, where we could each devise our characters and bash each other with imaginary weapons. Take that, you git!

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I've got Http://www.scivillage.com/forums up and running. There might be a few teething problems since I'm still debugging it. If you check it out, it is likely you won't be able to post straight away but that's because of the forum system the site will be trialling.

It wasn't originally going to have a forum on it since after all we have Sciforums, however a number of members (or maybe ex-members?) here have identified again and again, that they want to post off-topic, in the wrong forum and on controversial topics.

The forum is trialling the Reputation system where good posts can be awarded and not so good ones can be given some constructive criticism. The forums available are not made to be serious discussion forums, the idea is that the less serious discussion can be welcome there (With a few minor restraints like the Censor system where key words are hashed out and a TOC that you are over a certain age.)

If you head over there you might even find you can't post, this is understandable to begin with because we aren't having Moderators over there, instead we are having 'Hosts'. Hosts won't be out to moderate peoples posts, but they will be the controller of who joins a particular group for that particular forum. Should the person get disruptive in the forum, it will be up to the host to kick them from the group.

This way a user that's messed up one forum and might feel a little sorry for themselves still has other forums to access, however if they repeat a pattern they will eventually get locked right out of the site, forum by forum.

Hosts will generally be people with High Reputations and Standing with the Community. Currently it's a little hard to pick off the bat since we haven't had a chance get peoples reputations up.

This forum was put together in the last 12 hrs and I had to Cannibalise my other forum since I can only run one license at a time :( however hopefully it should be worth it. This forum is by no means the overall project, just one of the many pieces to the puzzle.
 
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