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Re: Un-spotlight? (was: suspended Bricklink shops)
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Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:24:19 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin wrote:
> > > Can somebody PLEASE tell me why this crap deserves to be a "Top News Story"?!?!
> > > Is it because it is Larry and he is "such a valued AFOL"?  Give me a break.
> > > Keep issues as stupid as this one between whoever had a shop closed and the
> > > Bricklink admin.  I don't come on Lugnet to read garbage like this.
> > > 
> > > This is exactly why I don't discuss Lego on Lugnet anymore
> > > 
> > > Get your priorities straight Lugnet admin!
> > 
> > Top news stories are member-selected. Paid LUGNET members can highlight or
> > spotlight posts which causes them to be listed in the top stories.
> > 
> > So, the post is at the top of the list because enough LUGNET members thought it
> > was important for people to read, not because of any one person.
> > 
> > The Top Stories list hasn't been manually compiled in years.
> 
> 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.
> 
> ROSCO
> 
> FUT: .admin.general

What happens then is you reduce it to game-playing, much like the people who
give a 0 to a an absolute classic in the set ratings so that their favorite gets
a boost at the expense of something else.

But then again, I could counter-act all those spotlighting your suggestion.  :-)

Actually, originally there was a rating system and I think what I describe is
exactly what happened - it became a sabotage game.

-->Bruce<--



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