[MG] Votespace social map - layout stability

[Ed Pastore]

On Apr 24, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Michael Allan wrote:

>>> What always annoyed me somehow is:
>>>
>>> G/p/blabla
>>>
>>> Or Do. Er. Fa. Mi. ....An. Ji. Th.
>>>
>>> That's something I don't get and also I've looked up G/ stands for
>>> Global, I forget it on a regular basis and have to look it up  
>>> again ;)
>>>
>>> Wouldn't it be possible to use real words? Maybe combined with  
>>> Icons?
>>> Maybe combined with onMouseOver-text with a short descrption?
>>>
>>> These abbreviations really make it hard to read.
>>
>> Agreed. The poll-name in the middle could be longer, thats true.  
>> The url
>> needs to stay short though. And I like the onMouseOver-text-idea  
>> for the
>> names. To make them longer just as they are seems not possible if you
>> want them to stay in a circle, right? But I agree, 2 letter for a  
>> name
>> is pretty little.
>
> Maybe the user doesn't need to know what "An." stands for, at least
> not immediately.  What he does need to know immediately is that An. is
> a real person, active engaged in discussion with other people.  That's
> the crucial thing.  If we don't get that part right, then the rest
> doesn't matter.

At some point, for scalability, won't the URLs have to be serial  
numbers? Or are they user-generated? It seems like the most flexible  
solution would be a computer-generated serial number with user- 
assigned labels (though that opens the possibility of people trying to  
make identically-labeled polls in order to confuse others).



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