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Re: Un-spotlight?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:34:10 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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 problem with the original system is that a lot of people became
very vindictive, and voted down any-and-all posts by people they didn't like,
regardless of whether or not they were good posts.
As I suggested long ago, I think, I much prefer the system devised by Perlmonks,
where you're limited to a certain number of posts per day, which means you've
got to think through which posts you want to rate.
Perhaps another idea might be to allow people to categorize posts-- IE
"community controversy" or "new MOC" or "funny" or "MOC praise", etc. Then
perhaps you could filter based on those criteria...
DaveE
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| (...) But for that to work you would need to have a large number of Lugnetters using the spotlight function a lot and maxing out their quota of spotlights. As it is, most people use the spotlight function very rarely, no-one reaches any reasonable (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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