If you’re here, you’ve probably noticed that we’ve hidden the vote counts next to the current word’s sentences. “Why is that?” you may be wondering. Well, in this experiment we call Quotidian Word, we noticed a bit of favoritism towards sentences that already had votes next to them and feedback from users concerned that the voting system was unfair in that respect, even though points don’t really mean anything and the site is for fun and education. So we decided the best way to counter this effect is to hide the total vote counts for a sentence until the voting for that word is over.
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Archive for July, 2009
Where Did The Votes Go?
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Supercilious Sunday!
Sunday, July 26th, 2009As you can see, Supercilious Sunday has arrived! Since Sundays are much slower internet days in general, we figured we’d toss a really crazy word out there worth big points for those loyal QWers who visit the site quotidianly.
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POLL: Should Vote Counts Be Visible?
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009We’re always trying to improve the user experience at Quotidian Word, and one of the issues that has come up has been voting. Even though the site really isn’t about voting and winning (everyone’s a winner when you expand your vocab!), the voting process adds a little fun. In order to maintain said fun, we’d like to propose a little user poll to see how people feel:
Should vote counts be hidden until after winners are determined?
- Yes (67%, 4 Votes)
- No (33%, 2 Votes)
- Your mom (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 6
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009You may have noticed by now that people are posting sentences with a little phone icon next to them (text!). How do you get that icon next to your sentence? Why, post your sentence via text message, of course!
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Necro-Sentences
Friday, July 17th, 2009If you are an active participant of this site, you’re probably not just using The Word once the day it appears, post your sentence, and forget about it. If you’re anything like me, you’re actively trying to insert it into your ever-expanding vocabulary. One thing I noticed about this site after I first built it is that it wasn’t necessarily friendly to words once they had had their day in the sun. Vocabulary is augmented through rote and re-use. Additionally, new users are less likely to go back and use learn the words because they have no way to record their usage.
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