Subject:
|
Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:37:40 GMT
|
Highlighted:
|
(details)
|
Viewed:
|
1137 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Here are what I think the current weights are:
>
> [ ".announce" => 2 ],
> [ ".moc" => 3 ], # Net effect +5
>
> [ ".admin" => -1 ],
>
> [ ".off-topic" => -1 ],
> [ ".debate" => -4 ], # Net effect -5
>
> [ ".market" => -1 ],
>
> [ ".color" => -2 ],
>
> [ ".lego" => -1 ]
>
> These can be tweaked as necessary. And will be, if we can't get spotlighting
> to highlight what we believe people truly want to see highlighted.
Huh! So-- if Jake made an announcement about, say, new bulk pack sets in
"klassik grey" (or if new colors were switched back to old) and posted to
.announce, .color, and .lego, the net result would be a -1 default?
I think I like all of the above except the .color and .lego bits. It seems to me
more that those weights are based on the current rantings, rather than how those
groups "should" be treated. I guess I would expect both .lego and .color to be
at +0's "normally".
I might suggest that another possible tweak would be that any post made by an
"official lego rep" (or maybe also "official lugnet rep") that is the start of a
new thread get treated specially.
Also, I noticed the bit on potential thread locking-- on a similar note, you
might want "admin modified spotlight rating" for particular threads. That way,
an admin could modify the spotlight rating of a particular post or thread
directly, and give it an extra boost or kick back down. Essentially, I guess if
the feeling among the admins is that non-MOC, raging debate threads should get
downvoted automatically, why not have the administrative override directly, so
that things that SHOULD get spotlighted appropriately are treated so and not
automatically downvoted?
I guess my worry is that I honestly enjoy reading some of the debating and
whatnot that goes on here. I see MOC's all the time, and can check out
Brickshelf if I'm in the mood. But now if an important problem comes up, it's
automatically at a disadvantage.
That's also especially magnified by the fact that people don't often spotlight
as much as they should. I can easily imagine a note that I might want to read
(about, say, something new that the Lego website is doing) which is posted to
.lego, and spotlighted 4 times (net +3 now), and some junky little MOC that got
posted to .announce.moc and spotlighted ONLY by the author (net +6).
DaveE
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: New spotlight weights
|
| (...) I think I agree. (...) I'm not sure I like this idea - here we are all AFOLs, I see no reason to treat official TLC announcements any different. If we get the rankings right, there should be no need. (...) I would be fairly strongly against (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
30 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
