This post part of an attempt to draft in public. See my reasoning here. This is a personal post so if you see it, it should be because you chose to. I invite you to become a joint editor or suggest comments/text blocks below.
Summary
Some people like to release everything at once, in a static form
Others like to tinker and improve things as they go
I think the latter group could be cheaply helped by a few changes
I am trying out some new ways of interracting with the forum, I’m attempting to keep the impact on other users low while I do so
Here I will justify what may seem weird
I suggest some changes that would make my life easier and make this less disruptive
I offer anyone the ability to collaborate on any of my EA forum posts
An offer
I will let anyone become a dual author on any of my posts if they want to make edits to improve it.
This offer is currently open but I may revoke it later. If you have a very low karma account, I may ask some questions
What I’m trying
I am publishing posts (as personal posts) that I want to write, so that I can write and link them as I go
This is the way I think and I think I will create more this way
If this is disruptive please tell me
I have tried to avoid that in every way I can think of. My work-in-progress posts are marked as “personal” and basically only publicly accessible if you search for them (I think).
Please tell me if you are interacting with this or another partially written post and you didn’t expect to be.
Body of the article
Different people have different styles
Low cost to accomodate people like me
Broader benefits
Easy to implememt feature suggestions
Drafts can be shared with everyone or with all logged in users
They don’t appear in search but can be linked to
Maybe the titles are stuck from first creation, whic his a bit annoying but seems fine
This would basically solve all my problems when I try to draft publicly
This post is a Work-In-Progress
This post part of an attempt to draft in public. See my reasoning here. This is a personal post so if you see it, it should be because you chose to. I invite you to become a joint editor or suggest comments/text blocks below.
Summary
Some people like to release everything at once, in a static form
Others like to tinker and improve things as they go
I think the latter group could be cheaply helped by a few changes
I am trying out some new ways of interracting with the forum, I’m attempting to keep the impact on other users low while I do so
Here I will justify what may seem weird
I suggest some changes that would make my life easier and make this less disruptive
I offer anyone the ability to collaborate on any of my EA forum posts
An offer
I will let anyone become a dual author on any of my posts if they want to make edits to improve it.
This offer is currently open but I may revoke it later. If you have a very low karma account, I may ask some questions
What I’m trying
I am publishing posts (as personal posts) that I want to write, so that I can write and link them as I go
This is the way I think and I think I will create more this way
If this is disruptive please tell me
I have tried to avoid that in every way I can think of. My work-in-progress posts are marked as “personal” and basically only publicly accessible if you search for them (I think).
Please tell me if you are interacting with this or another partially written post and you didn’t expect to be.
Body of the article
Different people have different styles
Low cost to accomodate people like me
Broader benefits
Easy to implememt feature suggestions
Drafts can be shared with everyone or with all logged in users
They don’t appear in search but can be linked to
Maybe the titles are stuck from first creation, whic his a bit annoying but seems fine
This would basically solve all my problems when I try to draft publicly
Hard to implement feature suggestions
Implement the editing system I suggest here:
Comments appear alongside text (I’m told the forum already has the tech for this)
Comments are hidden intially unless you turn them on
You can set a minimum karma where comments appear
Users can turn on community editing
Edits appear as boxes that float beside text. If you click them the document the document shows the edits on the text
Users can up and downvote edits
Authors can accept edits if they want