Google Moderator(google.com)

16 pointsby jmonegrovor 16 Jahren19 comments

google.com

Google Moderator

http://www.google.com/moderator/

6 comments

dangrossmanvor 16 Jahren

This has been around for about two years. Any context for submitting the link?

jmonegrovor 16 Jahren

It's surprisingly unheard of. For example, it hadn't been posted on HN before.

cakevor 16 Jahren

I'm not sure you could create your own series two years ago.

orblivionvor 16 Jahren

I was hoping the news was that the interface made any sense.

evlapixvor 16 Jahren

What the hell does it do?

Estragonvor 16 Jahren

The help screen explains a little more: http://www.google.com/support/moderator/

But it's still unclear to me how this differs from, say, a typical phpBB installation.

technomancyvor 16 Jahren

> But it's still unclear to me how this differs from, say, a typical phpBB installation.

Fewer security holes?

jmonegrovor 16 Jahren

Voting

timdorrvor 16 Jahren

Ask a question, people submit potential answers, others vote those answers up or down.

liquidbenvor 16 Jahren

So is this Google's first evolutionary step towards something equivalent to Stack Overflow

alextpvor 16 Jahren

I think it's more like Yahoo!Answers

howcoolvor 16 Jahren

CoryMathewsvor 16 Jahren

Uh.. Google should hire some usability people I have no idea how to use this pos.

snprbob86vor 16 Jahren

To be fair, this thing was developed by a single guy for internal use. Someone then ported it to Google App Engine just to prove he could.

EDIT: Although I see it has evolved significantly along the way to its prestigious top-level URL.

babycakesvor 16 Jahren

They did. The guy who wrote moderator originally works on data center power management, so they recently hired somebody else to clean it up for public consumption.

pavsvor 16 Jahren

Is this the final result after cleanup, or work still being done? It looks OK, but I think it can be much improved.

bojiangvor 16 Jahren

I think its geared towards presentations. It similar to http://eventhive.com

hubbvor 16 Jahren

this seems like it would make a nice pairing with the recently submitted http://wappr.com/

howcoolvor 16 Jahren

Just created a page (question/poll/topic) etc.

http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=4a31

hope this is what it was meant for, looks to be pretty useful