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Re: New spotlight weights
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:16:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote:
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> 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 think I agree.
> 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.
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.
> 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 would be fairly strongly against that. Admins can already force-fut, and
possibly in the future may be able to lock threads. I think that's enough. The
rating system should be for ALL lugnet members, even ones that highlight posts I
don't think should be highlighted. I would really like the ability to
un-spotlight though, yeah I know the reason why we don't have it, but I think
that could be less of a problem if more people used the spotlighting feature.
> 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.
You can still browse the all groups you're interested in. Sure you may miss a
debate here & there if it doesnt get to the front page, meh. You probably
already miss a few that get under your radar.
> 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).
Yeah, encouraging more people to use it is more likely to get better results
than any artificial fixes.
ROSCO
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