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(...) I would think that making the weightings available to the public would lead to temptation to abuse the system. IMO. For all I know, though, the entire LUGNET community is 100% Grade A honest. Anyway, my 2. -Vince (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) I don't know. Good question. I think you could argue that both ways, but probably it's a good idea. (...) Putting some regularization into the process seems a good idea to me, so ya, there should be. Up till now it has been ad hoc though, I (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) A couple of questions: Will these weightings be made available on a page somewhere so everyone can see them anytime? Is there a policy in place to regularly look at these weightings and make adjustments if deemed necessary? Thanks ROSCO (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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. (...) This is kinda more on my point - but still not 100%. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Mark (and everyone), if you have specific groups you want to see please go to those groups and read them. The spotlight feature is ONLY to choose what gets put on the front page and other "top stories" pages. It is NOT intended to replace your (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Where you said yourself "what we believe" - that tells me you do not know, but are guessing on what you believe to be true. And I know full well the spotlight weighting has been going on for some time and gets changed. I do pay attention (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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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Dear Admins: We're relatively new, small but significant, like set 6011. We've done a build event at Enfield. We've held several meetings. Any chance we could get our own group? Thanks much, onedaycnn (sid) (URL) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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