Resource Section

[alt_f13]

It would be really helpful to have a highly moderated resource section on SFN... perhaps something along the lines of the News forum.

 

It would be nice to have internet resources listed in categories... or even post resources as stickies in each forum.

 

Perhaps an open sticky, to which all members can contribute, but with the first post containing the cream of the crop links.

 

Resouces could include studies, lists of papers, information sites like PBS, sites asking for public contribution like SETI@H, University and R&D research teams like fermilab and science news websites.

 

It would be nice to have a comprehensive list of resources from people in the know rather than having to sift through all the garbage that the internet tends to spew. Links to papers would be particularly nice though.

[blike]

I like this idea, we'll see what we can do.

[Dak]

It would be really helpful to have a highly moderated resource section on SFN... perhaps something along the lines of the News forum.

it could kinda be peer moderated maybe?

 

say blike starts a thread titled 'resorses', says something to the effect of

 

'the sites in the first post of this thread have been checked out, and have been confirmed as being a)useful, and b)accurate/reliable',

 

and plonks a few unquestionably groovy websites in to start it off (like pubmed for example), then we could start replying to the thread with sujjested good sites.

 

we could also check each others sujjested sites out and comment on them in the thread, and if they get above a certain number of comformations that the site is good and valid, then blike could edit his original post so that it included that site?

 

virtually no work for the mods (except for occasionally editing the original post), as all the checking out of web sites would be done by the regular posters.

 

whatcha recon?

[alt_f13]

That's what I was going for. One for each topic would be good. I see it growing rather quickly if it were to take off.