Quip

Learning and science

fact checking

SHOW HN2012

43points
13comments
#552of 1,677 in 2012
Top 33%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical

0 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 5 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.45.

Execution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Annotated debate format with factcheck.org references is a good idea

    From 3 comments
    • The factcheck.org references are neat, though I kind of wish there were more of them. Is this supposed to be crowdsourced? ---------- Scrolling the notes is a little difficult. I…
      Dove on HN
    • Makes sense. Maybe put the username and comment together? It scared me off and I forgot what I was going to reply to. I do love the idea of these annotated debates. I wish the…
      Dove on HN
    • Overall, I'm pretty unimpressed with the quality of the crowdsourced comments -- which shouldn't come as any surprise to someone who's spent time on the internet. I love the…
      Dove on HN

Objections

  • Crowdsourced comments are low quality

    From 2 comments
    • Overall, I'm pretty unimpressed with the quality of the crowdsourced comments -- which shouldn't come as any surprise to someone who's spent time on the internet. I love the…
      Dove on HN
    • ``` Quip writes (26:45) Thanks for participating in this demo of Quip. Click the next video (part 2) to keep watching the debates. Sign up for the beta if you're interested in…
      aeontech on HN
  • Scrolling and comment UI are hard to use

    From 2 comments
    • The factcheck.org references are neat, though I kind of wish there were more of them. Is this supposed to be crowdsourced? ---------- Scrolling the notes is a little difficult. I…
      Dove on HN
    • The scrolling works well. It's a little weird, though, that it takes the mousewheel scrolling when I'm mousing over the comments. It makes sense, now that I've used it, it was…
      Dove on HN
  • Safari fails to save annotations with a storage quota error

    From 1 comment
    • Doesn't work in Safari. Can't leave an annotation. QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota.
      zackb on HN
  • Video widget is hard to use for finding content

    From 2 comments
    • I like what you're doing. Here are my thoughts: The widget on the right side looks cool, but the UX overall doesn't make sense for me because I don't want to rewatch the debate…
      pfraze on HN
    • In projects like these, I wish more of the front end design put more attention on the generated content. I would like to see the latest (or latest and most upvoted) annotations…
      danso on HN

Requests

  • Show latest or most upvoted annotations and let users jump to video time

    From 1 comment
    • In projects like these, I wish more of the front end design put more attention on the generated content. I would like to see the latest (or latest and most upvoted) annotations…
      danso on HN
  • More factcheck.org references

    From 2 comments
    • The factcheck.org references are neat, though I kind of wish there were more of them. Is this supposed to be crowdsourced? ---------- Scrolling the notes is a little difficult. I…
      Dove on HN
    • Makes sense. Maybe put the username and comment together? It scared me off and I forgot what I was going to reply to. I do love the idea of these annotated debates. I wish the…
      Dove on HN
  • Pre-annotate the debate's second half

    From 1 comment
    • Makes sense. Maybe put the username and comment together? It scared me off and I forgot what I was going to reply to. I do love the idea of these annotated debates. I wish the…
      Dove on HN
  • Summary or blurb view of fact-checks

    From 1 comment
    • I like what you're doing. Here are my thoughts: The widget on the right side looks cool, but the UX overall doesn't make sense for me because I don't want to rewatch the debate…
      pfraze on HN

Questions

  • Is this supposed to be crowdsourced?

    From 1 comment
    • The factcheck.org references are neat, though I kind of wish there were more of them. Is this supposed to be crowdsourced? ---------- Scrolling the notes is a little difficult. I…
      Dove on HN

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