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Re: This is ridiculous
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Sun, 1 May 2005 06:27:38 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Terry Prosper wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I just saw 4 posts from the same person in the Top Stories, all posts were 5
> hours old and had receive 0 or 1 human recommendation.  They all talk about
> pneumatics, which usually interests only a small percentage of the AFOLs, not
> because it's ont interesting, but because it's more complicated.  Anyway, this
> isn't about Kevin, who posted these, he has every right to post as many messages
> about pneumatics or any matter.  This is about the Top Stories section.

Yeah, I saw that too.

> I know there's been a lot of talks recently about what should be in there, how
> it should work, etc, but we have to act fast, because we now have the perfect
> example to prove that the Top Stories rating system is simply bad.

Fat chance of that ever happening!  When was the last time someone fixed
anything in Lugnet's software?  But I agree, the Top Stories thing is pretty
messed up.

I think it's probably a problem that could be fixed if people would just vote
for posts more often.  If everyone spotlighted everything they thought was cool,
the Top Stories should behave better.

> Again, please don't think this has anything to do with Kevin or pneumatics. It's
> solely about the Top Stories rating system.  I suggest we can't highlight or
> spotlight our own posts.  I laso suggest that the softener should be heavier to
> prevent a post from being in the top stories with only one recommendation.
> 
> Terry

So spotlight some other post that you like.



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