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Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:36:42 GMT

Also, I suspect the release of new features at the same time as new visuals contributed to users' inference that what's been done so far constituted "everything."

Agreed. As you and others have pointed out, a post like this one would have helped a lot. I have learned.

Before making a few specific replies, let me further explain why I went through the posted suggestions in that manner.

For what it's worth, I did what you did, and we worked from a Freemind map very similar to your list, organised/weighted by upvotes, our estimate of effort required, and our personal desire to implement the features we worked on. I should have made that more public.

I did not realize that the help page had been wikified…

I've been intentionally circumspect about the wikification, to try to leave the three wikified pages open as long as we can. I expect that soon enough the spammers will find them, and we'll have to lock them down as protected pages. For those paying close attention, see this.

I do not agree that #27, handling footnotes, is expensive.

Code contributions are welcome :)

I'm not sure that separating upvotes and downvotes constitutes the desired polling solution; the discussion in that comment thread indicated a desire to separate polling and karma entirely.

It is my intention that agree/disagree has no karma attached. I think it very plausible that agree/disagree won't work as I hope it will for polling… but the test is as cheap as ordering which we implement first. Since we plan to implement agree/disagree anyway, we get the experiment for free.

You did not remark on comment previews.

I agree that preview would be nice. What we have now works pretty well, so I'm judging this feature as low benefit/cost. Your suggested solution would be easy to implement, but I think would be confusing to users.

I think the principle illustrated here…

Agreed. I have learned.

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