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Tom Trelogan
Forum Admin
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 Posted - Jan 14 2013 : 09:12:41 AM
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| If you've got any questions about the course, this is the place to post them. |
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John Edelmon
Fledgling
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Posted - Jan 14 2013 : 10:22:25 PM
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| I know you wrote "Arguments and Their Evaluation", which I have yet to read, but did you also write the information on the wiki? |
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Tom Trelogan
Forum Admin
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Posted - Jan 15 2013 : 06:37:31 AM
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The information on the wiki? There are things on the wiki I didn't write—all the pages accessible via the links under the heading "PmWiki" at the bottom of the main menu, for example—but most of what's there right now I confess to having authored. In particular, what you'll be reading when you work your way through the "Very First Lecture" in the Reading Room—which is also accessible via the links in the outline at the bottom of the main page (what I also have called the "Orientation to PHIL 200 and...Quick Tour of the Wiki")—yup, I wrote all of that...except, of course, where I'm clearly quoting things from other sources.
But as you know, I hope that in short order there'll be all sorts of things on the wiki that have been written by you and your classmates too. If things work out as I hope they do, then the wiki will be, in the end, something in which all of you have had a hand as well—a real conversation, not just a monologue. |
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David Berger
Apprentice
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Posted - Apr 09 2013 : 11:59:46 AM
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Professor Trelogan! I think it would be just so great if you could somehow organize a system that ranks us based on how many posts we've made. And then you can come up with the ranks! The ranks would be arbitrary and silly.
Perhaps: Iron Scholar, Heroic Scholar, Bronze scholar, Silver Scholar, Gold Scholar, Demigod, God.
Or, Peon, Novice, Apprentice, Adept, Word-Weaver, Master, Sage
-Something like this one would be cool because then everyone who doesn't post would be a "Peon"  .
But really, it could be like, Squid, Monkey, Goose, Moose, Doggy, Froggy, DINOSAUR.
The post progression would be like: 5, 10, 20, 40, 60, 100, etc.
This is wishful thinking. I do not know if such functionality exists on the forums. |
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Nickolaus Lavery
Fledgling
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Posted - Apr 10 2013 : 01:20:17 AM
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David, has RuneScape diminished in its ability to give you the 'fix' you need for arbitrary ratings?!  |
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Tom Trelogan
Forum Admin
1368 Posts |
Posted - Apr 10 2013 : 5:13:43 PM
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Such functionality exists!
Something like your second batch of ranks is already built into the forum software (0-4 Posts: Newcomer - no stars; 5-19 Posts: Fledgling - one star; 20-49 Posts: Apprentice - two stars; 50-99 Posts: Journeyman - three stars; 100-499 Posts: Adept - four stars; 500 or more posts: Old Hand - five stars) and I've just reset the software to make it reveal those rankings. You, sir, are right now an apprentice! I'm an old hand.
Some of this is fixed and some can be adjusted. We're stuck with six ranks altogether (0-5 stars), but can call them anything we'd like to call them. The post progression can be altered; the color of the stars can be altered (within certain limits). And by the way, my stars are purple not because I'm an old hand, but because I'm the an Administrator. If I were a plain old garden variety old hand, my stars would be merely gold. That the things you get from 0 to 5 of are stars -- that cannot be altered. Also, unhappily, the ranks cannot vary from one forum to the next, so whatever we came up with for the Nietzsche class would also be visited on the Sokrates and Plato forum and, for that matter, every other forum.
By the way, I had no idea that frogs were higher animals than dogs. My Katie would be deeply offended. Or were you thinking specifically of Kermit? |
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David Berger
Apprentice
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Posted - Apr 12 2013 : 10:35:08 AM
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Excellent. Now my forum experience shall be even better!
Well, I was just being so random, think of it not like the animals dog, or frog, but the rankings "Dog", and "Frog", which can really bear any significance, even if that is just a placeholder for ranks. But the real reason to do it would be so people like you ask such questions, getting yourself worked up over really nothing of consequence!
But I am very pleased with your current system. Thank you for revealing it. |
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David Berger
Apprentice
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Posted - Apr 12 2013 : 11:11:31 AM
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| Hah, I suppose my choice of large print for textual emphasis implies a higher opinion of dinosaurs, but really I only speak to their largeness and powerful crushing force. So that system would be extremely random, some words bearing relative significance to something outside of the ranking system, some bearing none at all besides their rank. But how much time have I wasted just thinking about this nonsense? |
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