[MG] Votespace social map - layout stability

[Michael Allan]

Which URLs are a problem?  Here's a typical URL for the combo of diff
feed + votespace:
http://metagovernment.tuxfamily.org/crossforum/#c=DV&s=G!p!m00(Ed-EdpastoreCom

It's logically equivalent to this (though it'll look different when
it's finished):
http://u.zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?u=Ed-EdpastoreCom&p=G!p!m00

Ed Pastore wrote:
> 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).



Originally posted to the mailing list of the Metagovernment Project:
http://metagovernment.org/mailman/listinfo/start_metagovernment.org