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Re: Worst of the worst
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:26:36 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Timothy Gould wrote:
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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.
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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 see.
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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.
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Again, not quite. It’s not about giving a reason they disagree, it’s about
someone providing something worth spotlighting, and then someone else (or a
whole lot of someone elses) spotlighting it.
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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.
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I would hesitate to equate spotlighting with voting. If you want a vote on
something, it should be done with a poll (however flawed, it’s going to be
better - and not interfere with highlighting good stuff), rather than
spotlighting.
Spotlighting is about selecting headlines, not about agreeing on editorial
content.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) I think I agree with some of this - my point, Tim, was that spotlighting shouldn't end up being used to vote on an issue because it just forces more dross into the spotlighted list. If someone thinks something is worth highlighting, but a lot (...) (18 years ago, 17-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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