From: ted.dunning@gmail.com   
      
   I just played with your site a little bit.   
      
   One thing that would have helped me a lot would be better descriptions   
   of what you expected me to do at each step.   
      
   For instance, on the first page, you never describe what add or   
   subscribe mean or what a Brain Storm might be.   
      
   This lack of description is, I think, exacerbated by implied   
   relationships in your interface.  For instance, I think you think that   
   "Brain Storm" is a thing that I might ask your system to do but by   
   making it a check box within a table, you communicate to me that it is   
   an attribute of whatever the table represents.   
      
   There are also mismatches in the task and how I think of things.  For   
   instance, I gave your system peak, mountain and volcano as a set.  Peak   
   is clearly an ambiguous term with meanings such as "tip" or "reaching a   
   maximum value and subsiding" that I didn't mean here.  Your proposed   
   set of related terms included some of terms related to this ambiguous   
   and (in my head) inappropriate interpretation, but you didn't provide   
   me with any guidance with how I should deal with this.  Your system   
   also came back with terms like mantle, crust and fault which are   
   getting (correctly) at the geological aspect of what I was talking   
   about, but I had to mark them as unrelated.  Actually, I marked them as   
   disagree, even though I don't understand what I might be disagreeing   
   with.   
      
   It would have been helpful to have a statement at the top that was a   
   statement which which I might agree or disagree or to relabel the   
   options as "related" or "not related".  It would also be nice to have   
   an outlet for observations like "related to an alternative meaning of   
   one of the terms, but not what I meant by the ensemble" or "related in   
   a larger sense than I meant" or "not related at all, you doltish   
   machine".  These are different in my head, even if your system can't   
   make sense of these distinctions.   By allowing me to say what I am   
   thinking, you may not be providing better information for your system,   
   but you would likely retain users longer if they can say what they   
   really mean.   
      
   Finally, can you post a summary of what you have learned so far?   
      
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