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Re: New spotlight weights( was Re: LDraw shortcut images in FTX
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 1 Jan 2005 07:45:35 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mark Papenfuss wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Mark Papenfuss wrote:
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> > > I would think you could figure that out by what they actually DO highlight. Why
> > > would you need to try to guess? I WANT to see .color and .lego and if they have
> > > to do an uphill battle thats not good IMHO.
> >
> > Mark (and everyone), if you have specific groups you want to see please go to
> > those groups and read them.
>
> Well ya, thats kinda easy to figure out ;) I never said anything about how this
> was stopping that process. I know its not, I also know that is not what my post
> was about in any way.
Mark, I wish you (and others) wouldn't go deleting quotes included for context.
I've re-inserted the sentence you removed above, with I assumed to mean you
wanted to see posts in .lego and .color, which is the context in which I posted
my reply. I apologise if that is not what you meant. Did you mean you wanted to
see more posts from those groups in the top stories lists?
> > The spotlight feature is ONLY to choose what gets
> > put on the front page and other "top stories" pages.
>
> This is kinda more on my point - but still not 100%. The adjusted highlight
> weighting is placing posts in the top spots when they do not get ANY highlight
> votes. And it is putting them above posts that DO get highlight votes.
>
> What do you (question mainily aimed towards the Lugnet admins) think 'the
> people' want to see on the spotlighted list? Posts that got NO highlight votes?
> Or posts that got a few highlight votes? With this (miskewed IMHO) weighting
> system posts that get NO votes can be higher up than posts that DID get a few
> votes. According to Larry, people like the idea of a post getting no votes being
> above posts that do get votes. Sorry, that seems about as stupid as possible to
> me. It may not seem that way to you - and thats perfectly fine - to each his
> own. I am not banging down the doors yelling for them to change it ;)
Oh goodie, because it has been that way for quite a long time now, and I think
in several groups (.off-topic tree comes to mind), it is very useful. Sure the
weighting may not be set perfect, but I don't see a problem with that. Maybe the
.lego and .color weightings are unnecessarily negative, I'm not sure. Neither
are the admins probably. I tend to think in the case of .lego and .color it was
based on current events, and may well be adjusted in the future.
> > However, if it is posted to .announce, there's a fair likelihood it will be
> > something reasonably important, though that DOES rely on the poster's common
> > sense.
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> I have seen many things posted in .announce that I question if they should be in
> there all the time.
Me too. And they often get responses indicating maybe it's not the right place
to post.
> I guess we are going to see more abuse of this now that you
> can get the #1 spot by doing nothing more than cross-posting it there (if the
> conditions are right). And stopping people from doing this will be hard - or
> will Larry (random example of Lugnet admin) tell people their MOC or whatever
> "announcment" they have is not good enough? And if he does, who is he to be
> doing that? Maybe to the poster it IS 'good enough'
Well I think in the case of .announce.moc, it's very easy - if it's not about a
MOC it SHOULD be dealt with. If it IS about a MOC, it's ok no matter how good
the MOC is, unless it breaks some other policy (bad language, etc). General
.announce posts may not be so cut & dried, but fortunately they don't get nearly
so much positive boost from the weightings.
Note: IANALA
ROSCO
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