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Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:00:32 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Pawel Nazarewicz writes:
> In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Elin Övernäs writes:
> > I am someone who haven't posted in a very long time so I feel very guilty of
> > this. I do read every new post and if I like the creation I highlight it. One
> > way of solving the way people feel ignored might be to add something like in
> > Brickshelf, a counter for how many that have read the post.
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> That's a really cool idea - This could allow people to see that their posts
> are being read, even if they don't get the response that they are looking
> for.
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> Of course, counters on people's pages usually do the trick as well - you
> know people are reading and going to see what you have done.
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> But ... how easily could counters be implemented on people's posts? Has
> this been a topic before ... ?
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> -- Pawel
A counter would only indicate the number of times a post had been chosen for
reading - which can be swayed by the catchy-ness of the title, the
popularity of the poster, etc. Hence the hilight button at the -end- of
messages.
Posts with titles like "HELP!!!!" would quite popular... but I may actually
be annoyed by having had to read it.
-Suz
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Yes, and a high hit rate with no replies just tells you that a lot of people read your post but weren't interested enough to reply. Where's the benefit in that? -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES)
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| hey, suz.. i was wondering how exactly it worked that someone gets on the spotlight list, and more specifically on the news list on the lugnet homepage? is this your choice or by some weird cpu thing? peace -lenny (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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