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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)
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:38:41 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tony Priestman writes:
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.

Yes, definitely!  That's one of the later goals of scoring, for the 'lite'
homepage which will better serve casual and new users...

--Todd



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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)
 
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Todd Lehman (<Fr5AEn.MyF@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:03:59 (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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