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Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
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Sat, 22 Apr 2000 05:44:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Gramley writes:
Yup, the threshold can be set to 75 or 80 or 60 or whatever it turns out to
need (since everything internally is still 0-100).  The "Spotlight" choice
that people pick is just a recommendatoin (taken seriously, of course) but
perhaps the Spotlight page "itself" could have its own opinion (i.e. the
threshold) if it needed to.

Do you mean something like it could "change its mind" daily to make sure that
some minimun number of posts show up?

Ya, something like that -- I was just being nebulous -- needs some magic
sprinkles applied somewhere to make it work.  Maybe letting the user set the
threshold would simply solve it.


I completely understand wanting it automated.  Now about that left column...
I have always thought it was uselful but not necessary.  Most subject posts
are clear enough to not need the summary.

Ya, the left-column (weblog style) methodology is best broken out separately
into a real weblog (which will be perfectly simple with the member-pages
feature -- that's what the Spotlight actually uses currently).


Maybe the usefullness of the
subject line could be considered when trying to decide whether to rate as
spotlight or just highlight.

Ahh, yes...that might help.

--Todd



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  Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
 
(...) Definitely agree. It sure makes it easier for me to know what to rate and what the rating specifically. (...) Do you mean something like it could "change its mind" daily to make sure that some minimun number of posts show up? (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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