Veritula – Meta

  Dennis Hackethal commented on idea #4409.

Idea: embedded discussions on third-party websites.

#4409​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 24 days ago

Option 2: an embed code is shown on your profile, with a page-url attribute you fill in. That’s the page where you place the code.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on idea #4409.

Idea: embedded discussions on third-party websites.

#4409​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 24 days ago

Option 1: when you create a discussion, an embed code is shown, which you can paste anywhere.

  Dennis Hackethal posted idea #4409.

Idea: embedded discussions on third-party websites.

  Dennis Hackethal reposted idea #554.

Veritula deserves to scale to the size of Wikipedia.

But it never will, unless its users innovate.

How can the global success of Wikipedia inspire Veritula?

#554​·​Tom Nassis, over 1 year ago
  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #3419 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #3419.

Idea: voice spaces, like Twitter spaces, except an AI generates a transcript and automatically turns it into a discussion tree, with criticism chains and all.

#3419​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 3 months ago

This seems overkill for now. If people want to do this off-platform and then feed it into Veritula, they can do that.

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #2653 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #2750 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #4262.

Another idea: letting users post ideas to their own profile. Such ideas wouldn’t be part of a discussion.

#4262​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month ago

Implemented as of ecc72ff. Check your profile.

  Tyler Mills addressed criticism #2666.

‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to spell or pronounce it. They can’t easily remember it.

#2666​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 5 months ago

There's something to be said for a degree of complexity and novelty to a name. It lends air of thoughtfulness, and could spark curiosity in potential new users.

  Tyler Mills commented on criticism #4356.

'Veritula' is not a difficult name as compared to other highly successful explanatory enterprises, like 'Veritasium.'

#4356​·​Tyler Mills, about 1 month ago

See also: "Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell", the highly successful educational YT channel. I know people who are big fans, and yet can't pronounce the name correctly.

  Tyler Mills addressed criticism #2666.

‘Veritula’ is a difficult name, people don’t know how to spell or pronounce it. They can’t easily remember it.

#2666​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 5 months ago

'Veritula' is not a difficult name as compared to other highly successful explanatory enterprises, like 'Veritasium.'

  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2665.

‘Renaissance’ isn’t exactly easy to spell either.

#2665​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 5 months ago

Easier than ‘Veritula’, though. At least it’s a known word.

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #1865 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #2962.

The red ‘Criticized’ label shows how many pending criticisms an idea has. For example ‘Criticized (5)’ means the idea has five pending criticisms.

But if there are lots of comments, including non-criticisms and addressed criticisms, it’s hard to identify pending criticisms.

There should be an easy way to filter comments of a given idea down to only pending criticisms.

#2962​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months ago

As of 8e0a6e1, comments on each idea are shown in the following order: criticisms first, regular comments last. Within each category, uncontroversial comments are shown first. Lastly, comments are sorted by creation date (ascending).

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #1876.

There could be a separate button to filter comments down.

#1876​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months ago

Not as simple as #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #1869.

The red ‘Criticized’ label could be clickable and filter the displayed comments ‘in place’.

#1869​·​Dennis HackethalOP, 6 months ago

Not as simple as #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #1867.

The red ‘Criticized’ label could be a link leading to a filtered version of ideas#show.

#1867​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 6 months ago

Not as simple as #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #4274 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal criticized idea #4274.

Should comments be sorted by controversial/uncontroversial first, date second?

#4274​·​Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month ago

More or less a duplicate of #4349.

  Dennis Hackethal commented on criticism #2962.

The red ‘Criticized’ label shows how many pending criticisms an idea has. For example ‘Criticized (5)’ means the idea has five pending criticisms.

But if there are lots of comments, including non-criticisms and addressed criticisms, it’s hard to identify pending criticisms.

There should be an easy way to filter comments of a given idea down to only pending criticisms.

#2962​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised 4 months ago

Could simply sort comments by pending criticism first, creation date second. (Variation of #4274.)

  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #2750 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal archived idea #2442 along with any revisions.
  Dennis Hackethal addressed criticism #4126.

Feature idea: pay people to criticize an idea.

You start a ‘bounty’ of an arbitrary amount (min. USD 5), which is prorated among eligible critics after some deadline.

There could then be a page for bounties at /bounties. And a page listing a user’s bounties at /:username/bounties.

When starting a bounty, the user writes terms for the kinds of criticism they want. This way, they avoid having to pay people pointing out typos or other unwanted criticisms.

Anyone can start a bounty on any idea. There can only be one bounty per idea at a time.

To ensure a criticism is worthy of the bounty, the initiator gets a grace period of 24 hours at the end to review pending criticisms. Inaction automatically awards the bounty to all pending criticisms at the end of the grace period.

#4126​·​Dennis HackethalOP revised about 2 months ago

This has been implemented, sans page at /:username/bounties, which seems unnecessary.

  Dennis Hackethal revised criticism #4345.

Done.

Done, mostly as of 346fb25, then polished in 6dbf721, 5381525, 9f0f936, and 91e6f27.