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Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:18:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, Mark Papenfuss wrote:
You are guessing we want to see something up there despite the fact it got 0
spotlights?

Although I admittedly would still rather see the weights go down to just +2 for
.announce.*, and leave off .announce.moc, .lego, and .color from the list all
together, I just had another code-change-necessary thought for weighting...

How about if a post receives no spotlights, it receives no added weight? I might
also add that if a post receives a spotlight vote ONLY from its author, it also
gets no added weight, although tying a post to the member who voted on it isn't
always possible.

Or perhaps that instead of an additive bonus, it's a multiplicative bonus? IE
change the weighting such that:

lugnet.announce.* - 2
lugnet.off-topic.* - 0.5
lugnet.off-topic.test - 0
lugnet.space - 1

Hence, if the above each got 3 spotlights, the results would be as if:

lugnet.announce.* - 6
lugnet.off-topic.* - 1.5
lugnet.off-topic.test - 0
lugnet.space - 3

I actually rather like that, since it has the ability to prevent a particular
group from getting in the sidebar (like with the "rateme" post, which, although
all in good fun, probably shouldn't have been on the sidebar since it was in
o-t.test). Also, if an .off-topic or .lego post got spotlighted currently, all
it takes is a single spotlight to bring it back to the normal +0.

DaveE



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  Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
 
(...) Why do you think we're guessing? The spotlight function has had weighting for some time. Periodically, that weighting gets adjusted. This was one of those times. (...) We consider and evaluate everyone's opinions, and will include that one, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)

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