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Re: Ratings thrown out; changed to Highlighting (was: Re: the latest news)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 22 Apr 2000 05:44:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Gramley writes:
> > Yup, the threshold can be set to 75 or 80 or 60 or whatever it turns out to
> > need (since everything internally is still 0-100). The "Spotlight" choice
> > that people pick is just a recommendatoin (taken seriously, of course) but
> > perhaps the Spotlight page "itself" could have its own opinion (i.e. the
> > threshold) if it needed to.
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> Do you mean something like it could "change its mind" daily to make sure that
> some minimun number of posts show up?
Ya, something like that -- I was just being nebulous -- needs some magic
sprinkles applied somewhere to make it work. Maybe letting the user set the
threshold would simply solve it.
> I completely understand wanting it automated. Now about that left column...
> I have always thought it was uselful but not necessary. Most subject posts
> are clear enough to not need the summary.
Ya, the left-column (weblog style) methodology is best broken out separately
into a real weblog (which will be perfectly simple with the member-pages
feature -- that's what the Spotlight actually uses currently).
> Maybe the usefullness of the
> subject line could be considered when trying to decide whether to rate as
> spotlight or just highlight.
Ahh, yes...that might help.
--Todd
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