Bios & Public Keys
By snowlion , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Tue May 07, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
User Bio's should have all of the formatting capabilities available to comments. People use "Public Key" to describe themselves and their rating policy because it offers better formatting capabilities.

If you click on "User Info" for popular K5 users such as RegisteredJustForThisComment, you will find a wealth of interesting information provided under- Get this- not under Bio, but under Public Key. I would like the system to be fixed so that Bio information appears in the Bio box. To get people to do that, give them some incentive: Make it so that you can use HTML, Auto-Format, & Plain Text (and whatever else you come up with in the future) within the Bio description. It would also be kind of nice if there were a second box for comment rating policy. If you did that, you could put on the comment rating pages a star next to the ratings, which, if clicked, reveal the user's comment rating policy. Actually, comment rating policy would be nice as a commentable "story" in itself. People could critique one another's comment rating policy. But I digress- the key thing is: Give Bio's equal formatting capabilities as comments.

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Where do you keep your Bio information? · A) Bio 0% · B) Public Key 33% · C) In a Comment somewhere 0% · A&B 0% · A&C 0% · B&C 33% · A&B&C 0% · Other 33% Votes: 3 Results | Other Polls

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