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Subject:	*Re: Hide .off-topic & .admin posts from top page? (was: Re: Reminder: the .off-topic. groups ARE for off-topic topics)**
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:47:51 GMT
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Todd Lehman (<Fr5AEn.MyF@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:03:59 > > OK, thanks for the input. Definitely leaning toward filtering those out > too from the top page. Let's try that and see how it goes... This requires a slight change in viewpoint, but: If you think of the home page as a shop window, you want the good stuff there to encourage people to come in. With article scoring, you could possibly work the filtering the other way round, and only show the 'good' articles, ie those with positive scores. Just a thought. -- Tony Priestman

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		Re: Hide .off-topic & .admin posts from top page? (was: Re: Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics)
(...) Yes, definitely! That's one of the later goals of scoring, for the 'lite' homepage which will better serve casual and new users... --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Re: Hide .off-topic & .admin posts from top page? (was: Re: Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics)
(...) :-) (...) Yup, they'll still be available by direct down-clicking into the groups from the light blue band at the top. And they'll still be accessible from the "traffic report" page. (...) OK, thanks for the input. Definitely leaning toward (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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