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by jmonegro • 16 years ago

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dangrossman• 16 years ago

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

cake• 16 years ago

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

jmonegro2• 16 years ago

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

orblivion• 16 years ago

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

evlapix• 16 years ago

What the hell does it do?

howcool2• 16 years ago

Estragon• 16 years ago

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.

technomancy• 16 years ago

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

Fewer security holes?

jmonegro2• 16 years ago

Voting

timdorr• 16 years ago

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

liquidben• 16 years ago

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

CoryMathews• 16 years ago

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

snprbob86• 16 years ago

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.

babycakes• 16 years ago

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.

pavs• 16 years ago

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

howcool2• 16 years ago

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

hubb• 16 years ago

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

bojiang• 16 years ago

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

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