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Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:24:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message
> > > A quick look at .announce shows that the group consistently receives
> > > highlighted posts:
> > > http://news.lugnet.com/announce/?n=,-100&v=c
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> > I have also just noticed that 8/10 of the "top stories" are from .announce.
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> Messages posted to a .announce group show up in the "top stories" much more
> quickly than mssages not in an .announce group. My cynical nature suggests
> to me that this is at least partly the reason it is posted to
> (inappropriately) so often.
Right. The algorithm for determining the entries into top stories
automatically gives heavier weight to stuff posted into .announce... a fine
example of the law of unintended consequences, subclass "you get what you
measure for"...
++Lar
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Bulk Lego Auctions
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| (...) Messages posted to a .announce group show up in the "top stories" much more quickly than mssages not in an .announce group. My cynical nature suggests to me that this is at least partly the reason it is posted to (inappropriately) so often. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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