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Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:33:00 GMT
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:29:55PM +0000, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
> > 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 of what the community
> > is really looking for in the spotlight - could even have the default
> > weights be calculated off the average weighing of all the users.
> 
> 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 big performance hit.
> Like, only allow settings for a few groups rather than *ALL* groups to
> increase the odds of people having matching settings.

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 weights) will only cause the server to
generate one spotlight list.

Good thinking!

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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  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 (21 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 (21 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  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 (...) (21 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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