 | | Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES) — Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES) —Tony Hafner
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES) —Leonard Hoffman
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| | | | | | (...) well, if NO ONE is repling to your post, you begin to look for some other type of feedback... hit rates can serve that purpose. -lenny (23 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES) —Leonard Hoffman
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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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| | | | | | Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES) —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) homepage? (...) I can answer that. When members are logged in through the web interface, they can "rate" posts as they read them. The rating is combined to create a score, and the spotlight is generated from that score. It's completely (...) (23 years ago, 19-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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