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Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES)
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Mon, 19 Nov 2001 04:53:09 GMT
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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


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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  Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES)
 
(...) 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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  Re: Counters (was:THE POSTING BLUES)
 
(...) 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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