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Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
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Sat, 22 Apr 2000 05:41:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Matthew Miller writes:
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One concept would be to have the spotlight threshold be related to the
number of ratings made within the relevant period. This would 1) scale up to
the future when millions of people read lugnet daily and 2) make it possible
to do weekly or monthly spotlights.

Another alternative might be to let the user give the threshold and time-
period they want at view-time!  :-)  Someone in a super-hurry who only stops
in once a month might want to set the threshold to 95 and 30 days.  Someone
who dips in quick daily for 20 minutes might want a threshold of 75 and 1 1/2
days.  And someone who has been away on holiday for a week might want to set
the threshold to 50 and 8 days.  Would that be useful?

--Todd



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  Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
 
(...) Yes, please. But I personally would like to see that as possibly an additional choice and to always have a "standard" daily spotlight. I know all I would have to do is innput the right values and I could get it myself, but I liked the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
 
(...) Definitely. Downside: it requires some comprehension of what the numbers mean. It'd be nice to have decent auto-calculated day, week, and month pre-made options. (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
 
(...) The theory (my theory, anyway *grin*) is that the new system will shortly result in more people participating, so it'll all work out. One concept would be to have the spotlight threshold be related to the number of ratings made within the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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