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Wah
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what about we split the riddles forum into 4 sections,namely,"easy","middle","hard" and "others"? 
since most people will tend to finish a section before moving to another?
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Eric Yeh
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Re: An off topic suggestion
« Reply #2 on: Aug 2nd, 2002, 8:41pm » |
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Erg! This is totally against the direction I was just proposing! I'm not sure I see the benefit of this. I agree it's bad that people don't move on to certain sections because of the segregation, But doesn't that suggest that combining everything is for the best, rather than dissociating them more??
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Eric
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william wu
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Re: An off topic suggestion
« Reply #3 on: Aug 5th, 2002, 1:45pm » |
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Well, my original motivation for doing this was because the riddles bulletin board was growing so rapidly, and it was frustrating to comb through 5 pages of threads looking for discussion about a particular problem. So by splitting up the boards like this, it's easier for people to find problems they're looking for. It's a matter of speed.
The alternative to this is a bunch of threads all in the same board, and direct links from each riddle to its forum thread. However, I don't like this idea because you're basically putting the answer right next to the question, and that's very tempting.
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Eric Yeh
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Re: An off topic suggestion
« Reply #4 on: Aug 7th, 2002, 3:30pm » |
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Will,
I personally think a better soln would be to merge the sections and add a capability to search by thread title. Then someone could just check for the threads in that way. Maybe then give each problem two links: one that starts a thread with that name, and one that searches for a thread with that name. This would help the duplicates (as I mentioned before).
I see your point about temptation, but I think it's the lesser of two evils. I'd rather see a problem and be tempted to look at its soln than to never see the problem at all. "It's better to have puzzled and been conquered than never to have puzzled at all."
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Eric
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