user posting form, review system, instant indexing

note: there is a funded effort working on this-- please consult
asah@google.com for an introduction.

What problem are you trying to solve / opportunity you're addressing?

much easier for individuals and small orgs to post single listings,
hopefully generating many more listings without sacrificing quality.

Describe the rough idea:

revive this feature and the code for /post.

Does this require anything beyond writing code?  if so, what?  where would
you get this?

policy issue around what we allow and how we review postings.
non-trivial code if we support instant indexing-- options include (1) call
GBase using its instant indexing API (yuck), (2) implement a 'mixer' for
records that aren't indexed yet (yuck), or (3) replace Base.

In the 18 month timeframe, how much impact could this have (number of
people impacted)?  have you considered all the steps involved (e.g.
approvals, user signups, etc.) and whether they would slow us or limit
scale?

unknown.

Can this be implemented in 3 months or less?  if not, why should we
prioritize this over big ideas that can be?

yes, but it's a lot of work.  IMHO(asah) this isn't worth prioritizing from
core eng team.

How does this impact users?

more listings which are higher quality in some ways (better forms
technology i.e. better validation) and lower in others (longtail).

How does this impact organizers?

easier to post.

How does this leverage partners?

deleverages partners-- though arguably subsuming this work frees them to
worry about other stuff.  I doubt anybody will buy this argument.

Does this bring up new legal/policy problems?

yes: right now, we can "push" the review process onto partners, and while
some of them do a better job than others, we can identify quality by
partnerID.  User posting simply adds another partner feed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by adam.sah on 27 Jun 2009 at 10:51

asah / footprint2009dev

user posting form, review system, instant indexing #466