Approval feedback

[cavac]

We here on PM write a lot of comments to OP's about their formatting, title selection and that they really should provide more information when posting questions.

My idea would be to provide a few, limited flags (checkboxes) to give basic feedback to the poster. This would especially useful in SoPW to tell the poster if his/her formatting is good, he/she did provide adequate information and the title was (or wasn't) meaningful. If unchecked, the node status would display a short link to the relevant documentation, else it would just say thinks like "title ok, enough information provided, formatting acceptable."

Of course, instead of checkboxes, it could be +/-/0 radiobuttons to make every feedback option optional.

I realize this is a very static information (probably can't be changed after approval), but it would give the poster some feedback without bloating PM with long-winded comments about the basics. Also, new users could learn from the simple feedbackflags on posts of others.

I hope i didn't mess up the explanation too much. I can see how it would work before my inner eye, but somehow i find it a bit hard to explain the concept.

[afoken]

I doubt that most people writing "doesn't work"- or "fix my junk ASAP"-style Postings without even reading the <p> and <code> hints are interested in any kind of feedback about their postings style.

Alexander

[Sewi]

Perlmonks might be more interesting and useful to new users if there would be a simple Javascript editor - which might still fall back to the old one.

[planetscape]

Prior discussion: Free Nodelet Hack: a graphical editor for composing nodes

Perhaps it is time to revisit this idea?

[Anonymous Monk]

My idea would be to provide a few, limited flags (checkboxes) to give basic feedback to the poster.

I didn't like this idea when ww thought of it last month and I still don't like it :)

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Yes, I do believe you have successfully proposed a Free Nodelet Hack

[jffry]

[ ] insane, too many bold/italics

I don't think it's fair to single out sundialsvc4 like that.

_{Sundial, sorry dude, I couldn't help it.}

[Anonymous Monk]

Here is the start of the Gentle Feedback Free Nodelet Hack

Untested, but I'm pretty sure I got the magic strings right

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--//
var TehGentleFeedback = function()
{
    if( document.getElementById("Gentle-Feedback-Popup") !== null ){
        /* single instance checker */
        return;
    }
    String.prototype.escapeHTML = function(){
        var result = "";
        for(var i = 0; i < this.length; i++){
            if(this.charAt(i) == "&" 
                  && this.length-i-1 >= 4 
                  && this.substr(i, 4) != "&amp;"){
                result = result + "&amp;";
            } else if(this.charAt(i)== "<"){
                result = result + "&lt;";
            } else if(this.charAt(i)== ">"){
                result = result + "&gt;";
            } else {
                result = result + this.charAt(i);
            }
        }
        return result;
    };

    var IQ = function IQ(msg){
        msg = "/msg `[`author_title\``] " + msg;
        var ret = '';
        ret += '<form method="post" action="?" enctype="multipart/form
+-data">';
        ret += '<input name="op" type="hidden" value="message">';
        ret += '<input name="node_id" type="hidden" value="`id`">';
        ret += '<input name="message" type="hidden" value="' + msg +'"
+>';
        ret += '<input type="submit" value="send">';
        ret += msg.escapeHTML();
        ret += '</form>'
        return ret;
    };

    var SURVEY = function(){ return 'shabba' };
    
    var p = document.createElement("p");
    var ret = '<div id="Gentle-Feedback-Popup" style="padding: 1em 1em
+ 1em 1em; background:white;border:5px red dashed; position: fixed; le
+ft:120px; top:20px; z-index:3; display: block; visibility: visible; w
+idth:80%;  " >';
    ret += '<button style="width:100%" onclick="this.parentNode.parent
+Node.parentNode.removeChild(this.parentNode.parentNode);">Close</butt
+on><hr>';
    ret += "<p>Gentle Feedback <p> Instant Quicky <p> ";
    ret += IQ("Regarding [`id`|`title\`], title ok, enough information
+ provided, formatting acceptable, nice job ");
    ret += IQ("Regarding [`id`|`title\`], blah blah blah");
    ret += IQ("Hello");
    ret += "<hr>" + SURVEY();
    
    ret += '<hr> <button style="width:100%" onclick="this.parentNode.p
+arentNode.parentNode.removeChild(this.parentNode.parentNode);">Close<
+/button>';
    ret += "</div>";
    p.innerHTML = ret;
    document.body.appendChild(p);
    return;
};
//-->
</script>
<a href='javascript:TehGentleFeedback()'>TehGentleFeedback()</a>

For the magic strings refer to

• Free Nodelet gets templating features
• Help for Free Nodelet Settings
• Free Nodelet freed
• Free nodelet templates make scratchpads _freer
• Help for Free Nodelet Settings

I ran out of steam for SURVEY , implement as you see fit

[flexvault]

Sounds like a good suggestion, and if implemented, maybe a check box or two for the environment of the OP. Basic things like '( ) Linux ( ) 5.10 or newer', etc.

It could help define more meaningful answers.

Thank you

[Anonymous Monk]

That is a different suggestion entirely :)