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In lugnet.admin.general, Shiri Dori 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?
> > >
> > > 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.
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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 in one place.
Wait, are you talking now about the slope of the function or the value of the
function?
I thought Richard was asking if having a "Top X" list sorted by the value of
the scoring function (not its slope or second derivative, which would have
something to do with the degree to which positive feedback was happening)
would have a negative side-effect of less-popular articles getting ignored
too much. My response was to say that the downside of the side-effect would
be much lessened by the sqrt() function. :)
Also, a "Top X" list is basically the same in theory as a "Spotlight"
function, only it's much more collaborative and much more dynamic.
As the total number of messages being pumped through the system continues to
climb, it'll be more and more important to have filtering mechanisms like
this so that in fact less popular things _can_ be ignored -- because almost
no one will be able to read everything. But the nice thing is, everyone
reads a different selection of posts and groups, so things actually won't
end up getting totally ignored.
--Todd
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| (...) Oh-- OH! ... that makes it clearer. I was thrown off by Richard's first sentence - "Sounds Funky! Wouldn't it be nice to have..." (...) I agree. It all depends on people's range of interest. I mean, if 100 people responded in a +1 feedback to (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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