Hi, papa-pepper. I'm @joanroberts, I've been here for a whole week, and I'm going to give you one of my precious votes. It's only worth two cents, but:
- It's the thought that counts
- I would upvote you even if my vote was worth $2 or more, because whoever comes up with a solution for this deserves a little somethin-somethin for their effort.
- It's mos def value added, brings something to the table.
I've got a couple of thoughts/suggestions in the meantime. And if anyone out there has better ideas for a temporary solution, or have some thoughts on how to take this idea and make it a little smoother, please add to this reply.
I'm all for better mousetraps.
My first suggestion is - and trust me, this is a kind of clunky solution, not elegant at all, but will work - is to include our own tags in the body of our posts and submissions.
It's voluntary. It's clumsy. It takes some effort. And it's not indexing. It is, however, a way to be found in conjunction with a particular topic. It would work along these lines:
Let's say you called this "project index". You read my post, wanted to go back and read it again without putting a lot of effort into it, and maybe wanted to read responses I posted elsewhere about the idea.
If I wanted to be part of this, I would include #project-index-joanroberts somewhere in my response or submission. I would also include the tag: #project-index for those who would like to find everything on this topic.
This is just one thought among what I'm sure will be many suggestions to come. I'm going to go through the responses here to see what others think. Since I haven't done that yet, apologies to those who have already come up with this idea. BTW, don't even know this will work even for those who would like to participate.
Well, that's my two cents. Literally and figuratively. I don't write code or program, either.
And here's a free suggestion: those of you who do write code and do programming getcher group going on and open source this or make it an invitational group, whatever works for y'all, and divide the proceeds by whatever weight you assign to ideas and tasks.
And, @papa-pepper, it is a plumb-pleasure to meet you. I give you your propers for having integrity and standards.
Originality and putting the effort in it takes to write your own submissions instead of a completely or largely copy-and-paste job merits a nod. I may be new, but I respect and acknowledge authorship.