New Main Topic?

Agent Allen · Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: New Main Topic?

How about a new main topic of 'Sudoku Elsewhere' defined as 'links to and reviews of resources outside the forum' put under the 'library' category?

That would include Sites/articles/Books/Magazines/News Stories dedicated to /mentioning Sudoku.

It's up to you if you draw 'Software' in to that list or leave it as is.

I've brought in references to print articles twice recently & I see publishes advertising their books in the forum - which is great.
I also see references to 'famous' documents like top1465 and Knuth's DLX and so on.
I also notice no one posts in the 'Puzzles' library very much, which is a shame. I've tried to get a bit more accumulation going, but to no avail.

So the idea is you post a topic providing a description of the resource and link/a source for it (e.g. ISBN etc.) and then people post replies mostly to applaud/criticise or gently flame the resource as appropriate.
We might encourage the root posters to put a poll on their topic so people who've used the resource can rate it - out of five?
It would be nice to think 'everything worth knowing about Sudoku is in this forum OR accessible through this forum'.
Webrings are alright, but there's very little QA...
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angusj · Site Admin

Agent Allen

Thanks for such a quick response.

There is the important point that by posting in the proposed topic they will be are eliciting feedback from multiple sources.
Feedback they can not control.

I like to think the feedback will be constructive, but not all of it will be praise.

So if you post a link to a solver implementing the BTSSB algorithm and it doesn't live up to its name, we will find out.

People will say stuff like 'pretty neat but I still prefer ...'.
In which case the poster might reply 'fair point, never seen ... before. He's taken the ... biscuit, think I'll work on something else see you in 6 months...'.
Or they might say 'I liked ... but have you thought about/read/seen ...'.

Could happen. I've been tootling around this site for a while now and on the whole I think the lame posters either wake up or drift off and the stronger posters are helping them on.

Despite the strengths of Wiki (and it has loads) it is vulnerable to editing wars in a way that forums aren't.
In a forum you can respond but you can't (so much) revoke.

Someone will contradict me now, but as far as I know I've never smelt an Internet Sock Puppet on this forum and for me that suggests that there is n't an excessively detrimental level of vanity in the mix.

Where as Wikipedia has more sock puppets that a childrens TV station that is sponsored by a sock and button factory.

I'm rambling, but basically there's a very different feel on this site that I think we could foster in to more constructive interchange by saying 'look at this and tell me what you all think'.

Why not give it ago - what harm can it do?
It could get no posts or degenerate in to a timewaster, but hey that might suck the crud from the other topics in to a nice ignorable pile!
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kudosu · Site Admin

Indeed, why not give it a whirl!

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