Questions - bounswe/2021SpringGroup7 GitHub Wiki
Questions to be clarified by the customer
Location/Place Object Issues
1. Do admins predetermine possible places to send pictures?
No, it is a crowdsource platform.
2. Many users can send different pictures about the same place but they may not be in the same place on the website. How do we ensure the singularity and who will check it(admins, users, or someone else)?
We will trust to users because it is a crowdsource platform.
3. If users don't enter the address of some places, how do we know the exact address of that place by just looking at its name? Because we are wanted to do that people will be able to search for content near a desired location.
We can want coordinate information from user.
4. How do we differentiate two different places with the same name such as Birmingham(there is a Birmingham in both UK and USA)?
Address or coordinate information could be used.
5. Some places may have been destroyed and other places may have been built in their place. Should we accept them as the same place?
If they are located in the same place, we will show them in search result.
6. Some places may have changed their names too. Should we classify them by name or by location?
We should show them in search result if we have its coordinates, then we will show it.
7. Do we hold locations in a tree-like structure or are they completely independent from each other? For example, is Bogazici University a sublocation of İstanbul or are they independent?
No, it could be too complicated.
Suggestion: Places could be stored as object with Geolocation, Address Information, and Name fields. And also to prevent duplicate locations, there could be restriction like there should be at most one place with the same name in 50 meters.
Privacy and Account Issues
8. Some users may want to post or write something anonymously. So, do they have a username to login or only an e-mail be enough?
They have username.
9. Do we expect users to be one person or could it be an institution such as Bogazici University? Maybe Bogazici University account could post many photos from the history and those pictures could be enriched by other photos of graduated students.
It also could be a case.
10. What does a user see when he/she enters the website? Does he/she see posts from the followed ones?
It is up to you. We decided to show popular stories or from followed ones.
Content Issues
11. Do we have some predetermined tags in order to increase users' attention over the website?
It could be a case sometimes.
12. Will we let users upload their pictures such as selfies to the system?
We try to prevent this as much as possible because our purpose is not this.
13. How could we be sure that users enter the correct place and date information? Will it be checked by admins or there be any other mechanisms?
It could be necessary to delete them to prevent speculations. However, we will trust users to report about them.
14. Is there a character limit on posts to prevent very long posts?
Higher character limit could be necessary for story telling.
15. What kind of recommendation mechanism could be used to show related content and events? Do we use user-based(collaborative filtering) or content-based(text similarity) approaches?
It is up to you.
16. Do users have a photo-sharing limit per day?
It could be beneficial to manipulate the system. It is up to you.
17. Is it allowed to send a post for a limited time?
No.
18. How much detailed date is wanted from the user? Is it enough to enter the year, month and day? Or do they have to enter also hour and minute information?
We should give users as much flexibility as possible. We will consider this in later steps
19. Do we have an auto-check mechanism for inappropriate content such as bad words?
It is up to you.
Questions about Possible Features
20. Could users share their photos or comments on another social media platform such as Instagram, Facebook?
It is not necessary.
21. In which way do the mechanism make money? Do we have ads on the website, premium accounts with more advanced features or anything else?
It is not important in this step.
22. Do we allow bots to extract information from our website? In short, do we have a robots.txt file?
It is not necessary.
23. Could users take photos in the app and directly upload that image?
It is up to you.