On 07/11/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
There are a number of other improvements that could be made. For example, the notices that we give people could be made to sound more friendly and personal, and less like a parking tickets. But I think that ultimately it comes back to the software: If we won't accept people uploading without identifying the author (a good thing!) then we should have an upload form that makes such mandatory information actually mandatory.
What are the difficulties with doing that? What's stopping that happening?
Leaving aside the structured-data thing (in the belief that it's not going to happen anytime soon), could we superficially improve the upload form?
Say, use Javascript to create form elements (text fields) for the various bits of {{information}}, and then do some Javascript warning if you hit 'Upload' but haven't filled one of them out?
Also, would this really solve anything? If you make fields mandatory don't people just lie to get past them? (which is kind of where we're at now.) After all you can require someone to fill out a field but you can't technically require someone to tell the truth (or even care).
cheers Brianna