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  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin L. Clague wrote: <snip> (...) Few things-- First, love the story telling abilities of Kevin--whilst being offended at what actually transpired (as I still am, but that's neither here nor there), I still smiled because (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) I posted a possible solution to some of the Spotlight issues here: (URL) In summary, I think it would be possible to give indivuals control over the weightings used to determine spotlights. This way, the person who wants MOC's spotlighted more (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) I like the solution but the implementation of the solution might be prohibitive--the coders would have to weigh in to see how feasable that is. If it requires a complete rewrite of LUGNET's current software, well, that'd be a little crazy... (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) I think it shouldn't be very hard to implement. Have to add a chaching mechanism so that each member's version would be updated no more than once an hour, and not at all if they're not currently browsing. It would also work as a better gauge (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Spotlight Filter
 
(...) I think the *best* thing to do would be to have users put their own rankings in. "Posts to .pirates get +2, posts to .fabuland get -1, posts by my buddy get +1, etc". But that means re-ranking things constantly, since there's no time limit (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Spotlight Filter
 
(...) Oops, my mistake-- I'm told there's a limit of posts within 10 days. Hence the re-ranking has to query all posts within 10 days (roughly 1000 posts at the current level of traffic). (That does admittedly make FAR more sense-- I always thought (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) Huh. So, rather than keep an individual's ranked posts, you'd just keep an "everyone with settings in configuration X" sort of thing. Makes sense. I wonder if there could be a limited number of configurations to start with, in case it *is* a (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) I wasn't thinking of that, actually, but it could be done. Basically generate a signature of the user's settings, and cache the spotlight for that signature. That would mean that multiple people sharing the same config (skip filter + spotlight (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) Hmm, some good thoughts. Can we move this discussion to lugnet.admin.suggestions, and could someone start a new thread there, capturing the discussion so far? Frank FUT: lugnet.admin.suggestions (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) Hmm, some good thoughts. Can we move this discussion to lugnet.admin.suggestions, and could someone start a new thread there, capturing the discussion so far? Frank FUT: lugnet.admin.suggestions (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
 
(...) Sure - but I thought technical development stuff belongs in .admin.general? Eventually, we'll really need an admin.dev though. (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
 
  How to Spotlight (was: I resign from the LPRV committe)e
 
(...) How's about this: Instead of a 10 item list of spotlighted threads, why not two 5 (or however many) item lists? One of spotlighted MOCs, and the other spotlighted non-MOC topics. Shouldn't be too hard to code, and seems to solve the problem (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)  
 
  Re: Spotlight Filter
 
(...) This is pretty much exactly what I was thinking. The calculation of the "top 50", without weightings, shouldn't be much more expensive than the current calculation of the "top 10". This is because you've got to calculate a score for every (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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