Forums > Living in Kunming > Further gokunming feedback You could easily avoid this though with some other cleverness (as other sites do).
For example, the users that post or review on GoKunming are either real or not. Users that are always here posting or reviewing can be considered more real and therefore their ratings are given much more weight.
Conversely people that have only rated or posted once or twice can be considered less of an authority. Anyone that has rated only 1 place should be considered spam, 2 places half spam, only once someone rates 5 times or more can they be considered real. This way you can get a combination of "reviewers authenticity" multiplied by the ratings to create a difficult to influence system. This is just an example of course, you can fudge the numbers to whatever you think is appropriate.
A little maths and tracking what users do (as gokunming does) can be used to increase the functionality and reliability of ratings, so why not do it?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Further gokunming feedback I was just thinking after a posting by Alex, he indicated favourite Kunming eating spots which you could build into your listings section - extending it so it has more functionality.
What I am thinking is you should extend the listing pages to not only be able to refine by type of food (24 hour, American, Bakeries etc) but to include a rating ordering, so we can see the highest rated places first (you could do the tags by star value 5 stars, 4-5 stars, 3-4 stars etc). You would need to come up with a rule probably whereby a place needs to have 3 or more ratings to be able to be included, but setting the rule shouldn't be a problem.
You should also include a map on the listing page that indicates the location of each restaurant by filter.
If you included both functions the listing page for restaurants/activities would include:
Type
Location
Rating
In fact, maybe your default ordering for all listings shouldn't be alphanumeric as well - use the ratings. That way we can see the top rated places in a city just by looking!
Forums > Food & Drink > Kunming Good Eats Ahhh... isn't this what the review/listing section is for?
Forums > Food & Drink > Wasteful Business Lunches When you look at the stats its quite sad about the west though. They estimate 25% of all food is wasted in the west (hard to know here) mostly through the food going past its expiry date (i.e. people throwing out vegetables unused, supermarkets binning old food etc).
If you read up on the subject of food wastage its rather surprising. We could probably all do a lot better than what we do, but we choose not too for a variety of reasons.
An interesting thing I was taught by food scientists (working for a food generation and security NGO) was there is actually enough calorific food value in the human food chain to feed around 12 billion people. The problem is we choose not to use or distribute it equally or wisely for a variety of reasons (political/social/greed etc etc).
Forums > Living in Kunming > Go kunming meet tonight Should advertise a bit earlier if you want one, I only saw this now (10:10pm ready for bed!)
Nestlé investing 100 million yuan in Pu'er coffee
发布者Nestle - commonly voted as one of the worst companies in the world as it supports child slavery on the Ivory Coast and has, for years, pushed infant milk formula in poor countries as being "better than breast". Be very careful about giving them any kudos for their perceived support of local farmers, most likely they are simply looking for a cheaper way to get their product and don't care if getting their product means breaking labour laws or damaging the environment. They have consistently shown they are a company which does anything at all to improve their bottom line whether completely illegal or morally grey.
Apple concludes massive Chinese marketing scheme
发布者A haaa haaa haa haaa, not fooled for a second, but good try :-)
Water treatment plants to be installed along Dianchi
发布者Actually, that link I provided stated that the biggest plant processes 1 billion litres a DAY not a YEAR as I stated. Which means they can process 1.38 billion m3 of water a year! That's an astronomical amount... especially considering its only for 5 million consumers... most likely its industry as well.
So the one they are proposing is still entirely possible, it would be under half the size of the worlds biggest.
Water treatment plants to be installed along Dianchi
发布者Check out this:
www.algor.com/news_pub/cust_app/jardine/jardine.asp
The worlds largest water treatment plant processes 1 billion gallons a year. 1 m3 = 264 gallons. Therefore the worlds largest plant processes around 3.8 million m3 a year. But that is for drinking water, maybe these plants will filter to a lesser degree?
Dianchi has a surface area of 298 km2 and a mean depth of (a measly) 4.4m which gives a volume of 1.3 billion m3 (my maths right?). Which means with a couple of plants they could filter the whole of Dianchi in a year! Something tells me that's not quite right...
Besides, this will process the water flowing from a river right? I suppose 19m3 a second is about right for a river flow though, but a pretty big river, like the size of this one:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applegate_River
I haven't seen one that big around Dianchi though... I think someone's screwed the numbers somewhere.
Remember that these plants may not operate 24/7/365 as well which makes it look even more unlikely.
Water treatment plants to be installed along Dianchi
发布者Oh yeah, and is that figure right?
"clean an estimated 600 million cubic meters of water annually"
That works out to be around 1100 cubic metres of water every minute (or 19 cubic metres every second)! And that's if its going 365 days a year 24 hours a day... I would be highly surprised if this was accurate, but it could be, not sure how they clean the water...