Doubt on usefulness of the FEX
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From: Matt J on 13 Jan 2010 11:32 "Steven Lord" <slord(a)mathworks.com> wrote in message <hikoai$1s$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > Or are you referring to one author making a small change to another author's > file and having the modified file appear on the original file's page? > That's a possibility ... I hope you mean that the modified file could appear there in addition to the original file, rather than overwriting it...
From: Matt Fetterman on 13 Jan 2010 12:04 "Matt J " <mattjacREMOVE(a)THISieee.spam> wrote in message <hiksi2$9ff$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > "Steven Lord" <slord(a)mathworks.com> wrote in message <hikoai$1s$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>... > > > Or are you referring to one author making a small change to another author's > > file and having the modified file appear on the original file's page? > > That's a possibility ... > > I hope you mean that the modified file could appear there in addition to the original file, rather than overwriting it... Maybe every file could list "children" and "parents". So if you write a file that modifies another file, you could list that original file as a "parent". Then a link would appear on your page to the "parent", and also on the original file, a link would appear to the "child". That could allow people to rapidly surf through different versions of the program and encourage more collaboration... Regards! Matt
From: Matt J on 14 Jan 2010 13:31 Just to flip things around a bit, my wishlist for the FEX would be some additional possibilities for "self-censorship" as opposed to censoring others. In particular, I sometimes see a need for small edits and tweaks to my posted files - for example just minor edits to the Description section. These are changes that I don't think the whole world has to be notified of and I hate to think these minor updates are spamming the Inboxes of people watchlisting the files. It would be good to have a button that would let me flag the edits as minor, and that would suppress them from going out to peoples' watchlists...
From: Oleg Komarov on 17 Jan 2010 09:43 "Matt J " > Just to flip things around a bit, my wishlist for the FEX would be some additional possibilities for "self-censorship" as opposed to censoring others. > > In particular, I sometimes see a need for small edits and tweaks to my posted files - for example just minor edits to the Description section. These are changes that I don't think the whole world has to be notified of and I hate to think these minor updates are spamming the Inboxes of people watchlisting the files. > > It would be good to have a button that would let me flag the edits as minor, and that would suppress them from going out to peoples' watchlists... AGAINST SELF-DOWNLOADING I think this issue is crucial. 1) Allow to download only those people who are logged in (fundamental) 2) When account Y tries to download submission X, within the the last 30 days nore than once, the download count is raised just by one. 3) If account Y downloads on day 0 then the file X is updated on day between 0 and 30 and account Y redownloads the submission X, the downloads count is raised by two (the first download and the after update within the 30 days download) I think robust download counts would benefit the whole community. Oleg
From: Oleg Komarov on 18 Jan 2010 04:04
"Oleg Komarov" > "Matt J " > > Just to flip things around a bit, my wishlist for the FEX would be some additional possibilities for "self-censorship" as opposed to censoring others. > > > > In particular, I sometimes see a need for small edits and tweaks to my posted files - for example just minor edits to the Description section. These are changes that I don't think the whole world has to be notified of and I hate to think these minor updates are spamming the Inboxes of people watchlisting the files. > > > > It would be good to have a button that would let me flag the edits as minor, and that would suppress them from going out to peoples' watchlists... > > AGAINST SELF-DOWNLOADING > I think this issue is crucial. > 1) Allow to download only those people who are logged in (fundamental) > 2) When account Y tries to download submission X, within the the last 30 days nore than once, the download count is raised just by one. > 3) If account Y downloads on day 0 then the file X is updated on day between 0 and 30 and account Y redownloads the submission X, the downloads count is raised by two (the first download and the after update within the 30 days download) > > I think robust download counts would benefit the whole community. > > Oleg I would also add that the state of the star rating system is out of control (malicious one star ratings, fake 5 stars ratings and ratings without comments). I'm for its removal or temporal suspension. At least until some robustness is added (like the addition mentioned above and MULTIPLE ACCOUNT REMOVAL). Oleg |