28.10.2009, 02:46
(27.10.2009, 23:46)Richard schrieb: 10) To decide: I think it is wise to make a decision first what the meaning of the portal should be: what do we as a 'verein' want it to be? So let's go back to the basic question.
I completely agree with you here. So, what do we want as a 'Verein'? I think Calavera has quite adequately cited the purpose of 'Verein' in his last post. In my opinion, this means that there should be no maximum to the number of puzzles that one can publish in the portal, because this would interfere with the creativity needed to create puzzles. And we need that creativity to survive. I remember that no so long ago, we worried that the Portal would suffer due to a lack of puzzles.
Instead, I think we should very much go towards eliminating the symptoms caused by this flood. The daily Croco-puzzle already has such a method: The number of times a particular puzzle type is generated is influenced by the values people have entered into their user page.
We could do something here as well (thank you, Roland). Let people enter an order in which certain puzzle types should appear in the lists, and display the top 5 unsolved puzzles accordingly.