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Re: Un-spotlight?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:35:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote:
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.

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.

Um. Why? The goal is really to prevent people from having enough votes to
wily-nily vote down all posts by people they don't like, or something. Hence, if
you've only got (say) 3 votes per day, it'll take you a *long* time to downvote
someone you don't like's posts. Makes you think about what you're going to vote.
And since it's rarely used now anyway, it's not a problem where people who
really needed it might easily 'run out' of votes.

[whoops! I said "limited to a certain number of POSTS per day", and meant VOTES,
maybe that's what you were referencing?]

DaveE



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  Re: Un-spotlight?
 
(...) I guess I was unclear on whether you were advocating a limitation on the number of "highlight" votes or on the number of "anti-highlight" votes per day. In general, though, I think the best solution (assuming we need one), is for more people (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Un-spotlight?
 
(...) 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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