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(...) Voting via email might be possible, although annoying and pretty unsecure. A reply by default just goes to the list. You'd have to somehow send your member ID (and password!) and a flag that says "I'm spotlighting this" via SMTP that would get (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Yup, that's my number one reason for not voting. Until the web interface tracks what I have read and allows me to manage it, I will fundamentally continue to read by NNTP. Frank (21 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I don't know the stats for people reading via NNTP, but according to the lugnet.admin.statistics posts, there's about 3000 SMTP users - more than the number of members (people who can vote right now). (21 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) How many people read LUGNET like that? Would it be worth it to implement voting for those readers? Or are the non technical factors more significant? (21 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) ... (...) Reading via mail/news - voting was never implemented for those readers. (21 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I could speculate - but I really have no idea. My guess is that its bifurcated as below - highlighting of MOCs vs highlighting of "issues". (...) Yes, you are probably right about that one.... (...) Here's my top 10 (no particular order) list (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Probably to an extent. Still makes me curious though. I would be interested to see the "friends" distribution and "vote fequency" distribution across Lugnet members. I expect that many people vote for their friends and fellow LUG members' (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) the only effect it seems to have is to push something onto the top stories list. People highlight because they think a post deserves more attention. So once a story gets onto the top stories list, people stop highlighting it. If there was a (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Yes! I second this! (I posted this again just a day or so ago...) KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203 (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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Would it be possible to make the author name a clickable link if the author of a post is a LUGNET member? Accessing the member pages should be easier than it is now. (URL) -Duane> (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) I'm not saying that all of the community should be allowed to vote. However, I'd like to point out that you are now assuming that only members have donated to LUGNET. I know that is quite wrong; I'm not, and I have. ;) Scott A (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) Far worse than that-- "members who vote". Most members don't bother. The highest rated thread I've ever seen got all of, what? 20-something votes? Highest I can find on a cursory search is: 22 spotlights, 3 highlights: (URL) spotlights, 0 (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Yes. You need to put some skin in the game, somewhere. Sure, you could allow "registered" users to downlight, but personally, I'd leave it to members, people who care enough to put the smallest of donations in. Calum (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) You assume that the membership is representative of the community.(?) (...) You forget that this is the friendliest place on the internet! ;) (...) Hmm. Perhaps Kerry should be "eliminated forever". ;) Scott A (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) Didn't it used to work like that? Tim (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) I just wanted to pick this out as a really interesting idea. Something like when I go to Amazon and it says "you've bought this, so maybe you'd like this related item", Lugnet could say, "you seem to post in .castle a lot, here's the latest (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Some old-timers may remember (URL) this thread>. --Todd (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) True but it seems that (although I admit I have little experience with collaborative filtering systems) revenge and retribution would be much easier to pull off. For example, I dislike someone so in revenge I get 20 of my friends to downcheck (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) That defies the purpose, Tim. That's still saying an admin, a person chosen for ambiguous reasons, should have power. Those reasons could be for being a loudmouth, for being the guy who happened to be there, the guy who other admins felt was (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) That's okay--say the community isn't enlightened about certain topics. If they unvote "important" topics, it can't be that "important" as a result. What that really says is, we're gonna institute a mechanized form of mob rule. If it's gonna be (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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