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Re: Worst of the worst
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:34:15 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jason J. Railton wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richie Dulin wrote:
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I really think this is something that LUGNET members can sort out... if they
really want it sorted out.
‘Worst of the worst’ has three spotlights... and it is in the main page
highlights.
How difficult can it be to spotlight ten things more than that?
Okay: Some people can’t spotlight because they’re members... that can be
corrected by becoming a member.
Okay: Some people can’t find something worth spotlighting... that can be
corrected by posting something worth spotlighting.
It shouldn’t really be necessary to come up with an admin solution for stuff
like this... it’s been done before, and it hasn’t worked yet.
I think ‘voting off’ or ‘unspotlighting’ or ‘darklighting’ or whatever as an
option is unnecessarily negative.
And I think that criticising people who spotlight ‘negative’ things is
unhelpful. If people think spotlighting is important, then so be it - that
three people spotlight something is something to note. But those ‘negative’
spotlights should be overwhelmed by positive spotlights. There is heaps of
stuff worth spotlighting.
Really, if we spotlight the positive enough, and the negative will
disappear.
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No, I think you’re wrong and users need a way to counter spotlighting in
cases like this. Your post is another example of why a post needs an option
to downgrade it. Some people who agree with you have gone and highlighted
it. Now it looks important, even though there may be any number of people
who don’t agree with you. So, are they supposed to try and highlight Jerry’s
post, or this one, to move it higher up the board?
Jason R
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If people now highlight your post they are saying they agree with you rather
than Richie. Thus his system would work. With a negative spotlight you allow
people to treat things negatively without giving a valid alternative which is
needlesly negative in my opinion. With Richie’s system all it takes is one
person to give a reason why they disagree and the masses can speak either way.
With yours a post that noone cared about would look the same as one which
divides the community which is a loss of information. Like only writing out the
margin of victory for the winner of an election without supplying the total
number of people who voted.
Tim
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| (...) Not quite, and it's not my system - it's the system we have now, and it's a system that will work if we choose to use it. If the community doesn't want this sort of stuff highlighting, then they need to highlight the things that they want to (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) No, I think you're wrong and users need a way to counter spotlighting in cases like this. Your post is another example of why a post needs an option to downgrade it. Some people who agree with you have gone and highlighted it. Now it looks (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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