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(...) Cool. Thanks! Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (22 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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I've had time to read and reread and reread this post and I'd like to add a few comments further, if I may. "Teddy Welsh" <ewelsh@wsc.ma.edu> wrote in message news:I40H0H.1yKv@lugnet.com... (...) No one is unwelcome at Lugnet, not even Richard (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) Yes Todd - but the problem was that the spamblocks were not always in the domain name, and did nothing to stop spam for those with 'catch-all' email accounts. But it looks like you fixed the problem from your other post, so I guess it does not (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: spam blocking
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(...) Turns out it was just a one-line change to implement this. --Todd (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Actually, the spamblocks you see in the web interface are added on-the-fly when the page is shown to you. If you click "reload" several times, you'll see several different spamblocks. --Todd (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) AFAIK, the spotlight is calculated once an hour. That saves the server a lot of processing each time someone hits the front page (which is usually a major part of any site's traffic). But since that makes the spotlight "static" content, it (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Okay, leaving aside the blathering in the main thread, I just wanted to see what people thought about this. Since most of my castle creations technically are fantasy (being Tolkien-themed), such a forum would directly impact me. Personally I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) I believe in the past, Todd has explained that the spotlight on the *front* page of LUGNET cannot easily reflect someone's personal filter settings, since that page is actually a flat HTML page that gets refreshed every few minutes (saves some (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Todd, Perhaps it would be a good idea to have the skip-filter defaults set to skip .off-topic, .people, and .loc, since, as you say above, "The 'LEGO-ness' of [these groups] is somewhat gray". Then people would always be free to opt in to such (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I will add my "me too" to this. I would love for the highlights to represent my skip filter settings. -Duane (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I would rather see the spotlight to honor my filter settings personally. Can that be done? -mark (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Actually I jsut figured out that changing my email will not really do anything as my posts with the old email addy will still show the old email addy. Maybe a fix would be to force the anti-spam on both sides of the '@'? Mark (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Hey, thanks for the explanation. Do you think it would be wise to give some automatic points to lugnet.build? I only say this because so many people (myslef included, really) say they would rather see MOCs in the top stories list rather than (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Correct. Crossweighted by age, so that newer items are generally preferred over older items. You'll see something climb up the list as more and more people spotlight it, then fall as it ages. (...) not showing any more in that particular (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) You could be right. But a higher threshold would encourage more people to spotlight the on-topic posts, in order to get them in the top stories. You can investigate how adjusting the threshold might affect the results here (URL) I'm pretty (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I think the Top Stories function works on just evaluating the Top 10 spotlighted posts. If no one spotlights anything, then a post where the author spotlights himself could make it to the Top Stories page. It might be a good idea to make it so (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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Please consider adjusting the spotlight threshold for including posts in the top stories list. It seems to me with such a large membership (and growing fast), that the current threshold is way too low, resulting in more stories making it to the list (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Modify 'Top Stories' home page to honor filter
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With all of these new topics appearing, I've started to add tweak my filtering settings ((URL) Unfortunately, I need for the home page to honor these settings. I should not see 'top stories' for groups that I have filtered specifically out. Is this (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I would like to tack on my support for this also. Having the spamblock in the first part of the email addy is just pointless for those of us with our own domain. If there are no plans on fixing this problem can you please let me know so I can (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Is LUGNET what you really want? (Was: Re: Lavender Brick Society)
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(...) Replying to myself..., and Wayne, again. ;] Wayne upon re-reading my post and your reply, it dawned on me that perhaps you were in fact addressing my question, "Is LUGNET what you really want?", with your view being yes, and to those that it's (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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