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Re: Top stories threshold
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:35:22 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > 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 than may be useful.
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> > I would suggest maybe making the threshold depend somehow on the current
> > membership, so that it automatically reflects what the current membership
> > considers important.
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> > ROSCO
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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.
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> It might be a good idea to make it so certain forums can't make it to the front
> page. However, any on-topic forum should be allowed (which would include the
> .people areas).
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
http://www.lugnet.com/spotlight.cgi
BTW I'm pretty sure the off-topic tree is already excluded from the top stories.
> My suggestion is to go spotlight a bunch of MOC posts, and urge your friends to
> do the same. The 'ugly' posts making it to the front page is analogous to
> crooked politicians: They make it there because only a few people vote. If
> everyone highlighted/spotlighted every cool MOC they saw, then all of the top
> stories would be filled with the cool MOCs being shared.
Yep, agreed. Maybe the problem is that newer members just don't know about the
spotlight function, and so it's just the ol' die-hards doing all the
spotlighting. Maybe there should be more information at the bottom explaining
what it is for.
Is there any way for NNTP/SMTP posters to spotlight posts?
ROSCO
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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 (...) (20 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 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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