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Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:07:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford wrote:

Which gets me thinking, why not also have a "un-spotlight" function? Not to
remove a spot light I've previously set (which I can already do), but to
subtract from the spotlights of others (subtract 100 or whatever from its points
value). So if I think a news item that has made the top stories isn't all that
newsworthy, I can vote to remove it.

Wouldn't that be pretty much exactly like the original voting system as Todd
implemented it?  I liked it that way, but it created such furor that it was
replaced by the current more friendly system.

Chris



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  Re: Un-spotlight?
 
(...) Perhaps Ross is suggesting something slightly different-- IE that *if* something has spotlight votes, that you can veto them, but that you can't veto non-existant spotlights (in other words you can't downvote a regular post) Of course, the (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)

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