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(...) No, I think he means: create a place where the most positive-feedback messages of the day/week/time unit are displayed, so that people don't have to read all the letters and check each scoring individually, but find all the 'popular' messages (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) You mean a positive-feedback loop producing progressively higher and higher values for popular articles? That's what the sqrt() function is for -- to dampen by applying a nonlinear but still monotonically increasing function to the divisor. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Maybe a simple IP check? It's not perfect, but if someone goes to all the trouble of getting different IP addresses to vote from, then maybe they have something important to say! I wonder if someone would click their market.auction posting (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The only reason I read Slashdot is because of the article scoring. Not a bad system, that. But I'm enough of a narcissist that I'd be prone to artificially boost the score on my own messages. And I suspect I'm not alone. (You know who you are. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <interesting (to me) yet long techie details snipped> Great! I like this and agree to the reasoning, 'specially the sqrt part of more people voting influencing more. (...) ;-) (...) I agree, cool! (...) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sounds funky! What would be nice is a Top (X) messages of the hour/day/week/month/etc page. Although, would that bias then be an unfair one? Ie - as traffic gets busier, more and more people might just decide to view the the days most popular (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) ^^^ (...) Er, I meant a literal "and" there, not an "and then." That is, people ought IMHO to be able to see the current score without first voting -- that's an important thing, especially if they're reviewing their vote later, etc. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) d'Oh! Tank smudge for mentioning. --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Last night I made up a little prototype test thingy for collaborative ranking (or scoring) of news articles in the system as being positive, neutral, or negative. (Nothing fancy, just about 20 lines of DB tracking code.) Its "underneath" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) !
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Todd, I think that there may be a spurious "/" at the end of the URL for this week's CSotW. Clicking on the URL on the page summons forth Yahoo!'s infuriating "Whoops!" page, whereas the same link sans "/" at the end gets the desired page, which is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) This came up once before. Inasmuch as off-topic threads flare up from time to time and clog the overall stream of messages for a few hours, they _are_ part of the community, and to hide them from the top level of the group hierarchy would be (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Is it me, or is there an inordinately large number of people complaining about on-topic discussion in the .off-topic.* groups today? There certainly might be *some* confusion when a newcomer sees four non-Lego messages on the front page. But (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) We never left it. Fridays are (IIRC) typically slow days for traffic on Lugnet, for a bunch of reasons. Today, that low volume is combined with a fast-paced debate (not the first, won't be the last), so it looks a bit weird on the stats, but (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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(...) As far as I'm aware, all of the religious debate messages are all properly placed in the .off-topic.debate group (with a couple spinoff sub-threads in the .admin.general group)... Just set your newsreader not to download the .off-topic.debate (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't want you to either. I was speaking against the requests, not against you doing it. I happen to like your stance on that issue. Ben Roller (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I have told many people about lugnet, and what a great site for lego content, but the volumes of messages the last few days contradict that. When will we be returned to our regularly scheduled programming? (...) if (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I don't want to make judgment calls like that. If Erin wants her post cancelled, and she asks specifically for it to be cancelled (by group name and article number, or by Message-ID), then I'll cancel it. Maybe she makes a good decision, maybe (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Me too. The more I think about the potentials, the more I go "wow!" (...) So long as you don't use "space boots" in the same sentence, you're fine. :) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Arrr, as us piratical types be saying, the cat's out o' the bag. :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I am strongly against people deleting messages when it turns out that they were wrong. Just because you don't believe it anymore is no reason to pretend that you never said it. The follow up messages are enough, at least for me, to show that (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I can't know exactly which message you mean (I can guess) without a group and message number, but if you can point precisely to it (send me an email) I can cancel it upon your request. However, I can't (won't) cancel other peoples' replies (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes. I often encounter frustration with this sometimes when perusing lugnet.cad.dat.models , and seeing more messages for lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets . I chalked it up to something that can be fixed later, however; there are other features I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ah, I just had an insight to what the problem is. I bet some of the people who are complaining read Lugnet from the main page, which consolidates all the newsgroups. Perhaps the top page should not consolidate the off-topic hierarchy (I'd also (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes! That's exactly the type of quote! Good call! :) :) :) --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Agreement here, also. I've only heard it used defensively / aggressively, as if the person saying is were too insecure to mention the "-sexual" part of "homosexual". And in the context of Nan Zhou's stark message, I'd guess that the only (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <major, indiscriminate snippage re: RSS channels and putting people in charge of what they want to see> Cool. Some of the technogeekness escaped me, but the gist of it is very cool. As I understand it, (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) differance (...) What I meant was I did not usderstand the distinction between the two as far as this thread is concerned. Scott A (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) I am sure Todd will correct me if I am wrong but I think the primary differance is that members have paid a membership fee. Also please not that Todd has emphasised "News User" not "New User" there is a differance because a New (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) - (...) Is there any distinction between the 2? (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) that (...) Ooops! You're quite right! Thanks for pointing that out! DaveE (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I have to say I find "homo" offensive too. It is cetainly not a word I would use... Scott A (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sorry, maybe I misunderstood it. Word "homo" is used as bastardized version of homosexual here, and it contains a natural offense, just like the word "negro" against "black". I apologize if I exaggerated it. Selçuk (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah but can you get there from here? Because remember: no matter where you go...there you are. Sounds kinda Zeny. Excuse the smart ass postclub response. (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) There's a couple reasons that it sounds complicated. First, even though it'll be simple on the outside, it's complicated on the inside, and I was describing the insides more than the outsides. Second, for stuff like this, it's often useful to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Here ya go: (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ohyah. For people who wanted to keep it *really* simple, they wouldn't even know that channels existed -- they could just read the Spotlight channel and wouldn't even know it's a channel -- it would just show up as a little list on the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) oh. What on earth do personal channels (or weblogs, for that matter) have to do with guestbooks? Well, they're almost exactly the same thing. The only difference, other than the minutiae of formatting, is who can read entries and who can write (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I understood (and enjoyed greatly) what you were saying until there. I don't see it, could you please explain what you're thinking there? Sooo, we'll see all of this by say next Friday? ;) Ben Roller (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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