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Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 22 Apr 2000 07:06:37 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.
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> Do you mean something like it could "change its mind" daily to make sure
> that some minimun number of posts show up?
No, but one example of the Spotlight page having "its own opinion" might be
if it gave a significantly higher precedence to articles appearing in
newsgroups containing the name "announce", regardless of current human input.
That is, maybe the Spotlight page would consider that, say, two inputs of 100
(i.e., Spotlight) had been input along with all other input. That way, it
would only take 1 other person to mark an announcement as "Spotlight" before
it appeared there (depending on the threshold).
Similarly, it could un-give precedence to anything in a group "off-topic",
which wouldn't prevent .off-topic.* messages from ever appearing, it would
just make them much harder to appear there. But maybe that would already be
taken care of by the fact that no one had marked an .off-topic.* message as
"Spotlight." Maybe only "announce" needs an extra boost. Yeah.
--Todd
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