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Re: Compromised Functionality on Lugnet and Brickshelf?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:24:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
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Of course, the easiest way to see what people want highlighted would be to
count the number of highlights.
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I agree! IF everyone that cared about what hits the spotlight list
consistently highlighted (or didn’t highlight) things, you would be
absolutely correct.
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But the admins don’t see it that way, I guess.
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Right... We don’t.
BECAUSE, based on user comments, which we listen to carefully, we have reason
to believe that the actual highlights undercount what people are interested
in. Not everyone that has an interest can, or does, highlight.
That’s not a bad thing, it’s just the way it is. Some people aren’t members
and thus can’t highlight at all, some people read but don’t highlight, etc.
Could be we’re wrong about what the users are telling us in their comments
though. But if we were, how would we know? All we can go on is what people
say.
Hope that helps.
XFUT to JUST .admin.general... I am not seeing this as a suggestion topic,
is it?
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I agree that people not highlighting isn’t necessarily a bad thing, UNLESS those
people then complain about what shows up in the spotlight. Instead of
encouraging those dissatisfied people to highlight more often, the admins
rejiggered the spotlight results to satisfy the complainers.
Why not use the existing mechanism (which is open to all members of LUGNET) to
correct the perceived problem, instead of changing the whole scheme from the top
(which is an option open only to the admins and those who have the ear of the
admins)?
The whole weights system looks like an attempt to control what gets discussed on
LUGNET, and that is my problem with it. If that is not the intent, why not just
implement the skip-filter on the
spotlight?
Marc Nelson Jr.
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