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Wed 12 Nov, 2003 05:38 pm
The portal allows visitors to rate entries and links and submit reviews, now the problem is that since myself and a few others are the only ones who have bothered to rate stuff our taste is inordinately represented throughout the portal.
I'd liek to ask A2K members who visit the portal to try to rate and review some of the stuff in there to diversify the "taste" of the portal.
what is your meaning to the word "portal" and how do we cross the StarGate
never mind ROZAN ROZANNA DANNA .. I have a suggestion. If there are others like me, we get on to see whazzup or continue our conversations. That stuff in the upper right kinda laYS THERE. Make it do something. like blink, otherwise I wont know what its about. Hell, I havent even read the tutorial about how to do things. Maybe if there was a dowloadABLE page with all the features and lessons, I usually dont hang around to play with the gizmos. After I get done posting I sometimes leave the machine on a2k line and I wont be back for a day or more. Then I juwst go to posts and at aq glance . and lastly to New topics. Sort of like a newspaper
errrrr
so you want us to go and look at those other sites and rate them?
i don't think i really 'get' what the portal's about. i've looked at it a couple of times but, well, i don't get it.
oooooooooooooooooooohhhhh, I found it and have started to pay attention to it.
yeh I looked at one of the map sites. It looks like its a good resource for various usable maps. so I gave it a 10, NO nO, dont Thank me, its the site really.
Are these business partners for a2k or like ads? Ill visit em as a final thing before tuning out
errrrr
so i looked at the book reviews. am i to rate the book or the review?
Ooh, cool. . . found the Queen lyrics section. . . I had to give Another One Bites the Dust only a 7, because it got some of the lyrics wrong. . . is that the idea here? (I also think it's kinda a 7-ish song, so either way I think I'm safe. . . :-))
Rate the BOOK, ehBeth!!!!
WRITE a review - and submit it!!!!!!!
Click on the "add a link" at the top menu, and a review form will come up.
I submitted most of the reviews, to get the portal review section up and running, and they are pedestrian reviews at best - from Amazon etc, as noted.
PLEASE add books/poems/write reviews!
(And other stuff - these are just the areas I have been working on, so I am obsessed with them!)
And I'm obsessed with adding lyrics (could you send me a quick PM outling the errors, P'ash? I'll fix 'em when I get a chance) and movies.
But there are zillions more in all of these areas.
The books, poetry, lyrics and movies are all places where you can rate the book, poem, song or film. As for the other categories, the idea is to rate the site being linked to.
The Portal is for shopping, mainly, but also for information.
Aha, like Farmerman, I use a2k like a newspaper and had never been to the portal. I'll go take a look.
Thanks for the clarification, dlowan b. The book I picked to look at was one I'd read - liked to a certain degree - but the review seemed to have missed what the book was about. So the book woulda got a 7 or 8, but the review woulda ranked a 3 or 4 - and was so mis-leading that, well, I ran away.
errrrrrrrrr, and since there are several good sites for book reviews, i don't think i'll be re-inventing the wheel on that.
Have you submitted the sites, Beth?
And, 'twould be wonderful if you could write auick review - we cannot copy most reviews.
Or - open a thread, if you loved the book?
Asking a wet blanket for help? Sounds futile to me.
Well, I WAS hoping gently to dry said blanket in the glow of the sun - grrrrrrr - 'tis a soft, warm, fluffy blanket when dry.....
Nuthing wrong with a wet blanket, I'm being one myself right now.
In the begining few will get it, but once it gets going the reasons for doing it will become more apparent.
Same with making the forum, for example. Anytime you undertake something that has been done before some will not think it worth the effort. There are reasons this particular portal is unique to the internet and there will be more.
Until it starts to take shape I undertsand that it won't catch everyone's interest. This thread is asking for those who want to contribute to the project (even if it's just rating a site) to do so if they wish to. The reason is that the votes will help make the portal suited toward a more diverse audience.
So at a glance it might not catch someone's interest, they have the ability to shape and change this but if that too is not worth a try then maybe later it will make sense. There is a lot more work that will go into it and it will show.
There are other portals (I help edit the largest one and the second largest commercial one) and there are other sites. A2K started from scratch and the millions of other forums out there did not make it a re-invention of the wheel. This one is unique in that it will have articles and content directly inside the portal.
It's a work in progress, and I'd not do it if it weren't worth the effort.
Any other comments on how it is unique?
Same way the forum is unique, everything we talk about has been talked about before, doesn't stop us.