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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> Sounds funky! What would be nice is a Top (X) messages of the
> hour/day/week/month/etc page. Although, would that bias then be an unfair
> one?
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> Ie - as traffic gets busier, more and more people might just decide to view
> the the days most popular messages board instead of hunting the newsgroups
> themselves and finding overlooked gems.
You mean a positive-feedback loop producing progressively higher and higher
values for popular articles? That's what the sqrt() function is for -- to
dampen by applying a nonlinear but still monotonically increasing function
to the divisor.
> Maybe if votes that were referenced from the Top X page, were weighted
> differently?
Well, there's really no way to tell where an article is referenced from in
the sense of where someone first read it. Someone might first read it on
a "top x" page, or in their newsreader, or from somewhere else. All you
can know from the referring page is where someone last viewed it -- a
mechanism which is easily defeated by re-summoning up an article from a
different click-path and then voting from there.
--Todd
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| (...) No, I think he means: create a place where the most positive-feedback messages of the day/week/time unit are displayed, so that people don't have to read all the letters and check each scoring individually, but find all the 'popular' messages (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Ah - yep I understood the sqrt part. What I meant is that creating a list of the most popular messages skews the vote - because the most votes will end up being put on items on the list, only because people use the list to browse. From a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Sounds funky! What would be nice is a Top (X) messages of the hour/day/week/month/etc page. Although, would that bias then be an unfair one? Ie - as traffic gets busier, more and more people might just decide to view the the days most popular (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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