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Hide .off-topic & .admin posts from top page? (was: Re: Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 04:57:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Perhaps, until a better filtering solution can be implemented, these two
> > parts of the ng hierarchy ought not to be included in the top-level summary
> > at the homepage afterall. There's no great way to tell how many people are
> > adversely affected by the noise, but my gut tells me that tucking these away
> > would be a noticable improvement.
>
> won't this break the rule of no-special-cases though?
Yes, it would break that rule. :-(
However...
Even though consistency in structure is good from both a mathgeek-sysarch's
and an end-user's point of view, I think it's ultimately more important to
serve the empirical needs of the end-users above most else. That is, users
are more important than 100.00% consistency. The consistency should be there
to help users, but when it starts getting in the way, the consistency should
be relaxed somewhat. And I think the current 100.00% consistency -is- getting
in the way here.
Thus, the negatives arising from a tiny bit of inconsistency (special cases)
are, in this case, likely to be much outweighed by the positives.
> Unless there's already a mechanism build in for it...?
Not yet, no.
--Todd
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