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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 (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Calum Tsang
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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 (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | | | community v members v registered users —Scott Arthur
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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 (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
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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' (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) ... (...) Reading via mail/news - voting was never implemented for those readers. (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
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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? (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
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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). (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Stats for 2004: Total posts via logged in web users: 34,682 Total posts by NNTP/SMTP/non-logged in users: 62,036 Unique web members: 597 Unique non-logged-in posting members: 1,685 So, about 1/4 of the posters are posting 1/2 of the content (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) Hmmmn. I don't know what to make of those numbers - except that its a very high number people who just don't see the "highlighting" drilldown. SUGGESTION Clearly Todd already has * a way of highlighting posts * parsing emails to take actions * (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Well, the issue would really be authenticating the user as a member, and making sure the message didn't get posted if they composed it incorrectly. Since only members are allowed to vote (and when viewing from SMTP/NNTP you can't see (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Agreed. No way would you want someone to send a password in plain text. (...) That's what I was thinking - same as current posting authentication. (...) Hmmn. Good point; this could be (mostly) addressed during the authentication stage: For (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Except that this step isn't happening right now. The server doesn't actually know that this post is from member 179 - it just knows that this email addressed has been allowed to post with these headers. Yes, updating the posting setup form to (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Just to clarify - this is the total number of posts in 2004 - by everyone, logged in, web, email, news, you name it. (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Dan Boger
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| | | | | | | | (...) I do think it would be a good idea. With the current imlpementation though, I don't think it's easy to actually corralate posts with the memebers who post them. (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Frank Filz
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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 (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Bruce Hietbrink
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| | | | (...) I think you're right that there is a tendency to not bother if something is already on the top-ten list. A couple of other possible reasons: -don't highlight outside of chosen theme (i.e. the "I'm a castle guy so I don't care about space" or (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) I think it was less the ACTUAL time it took and more of the "maybe" time it took. Despite that you might check out a MOC for the same amount of time as you might spend skimming a website, an entire website is a lot more to take in. So I think (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Bruce Hietbrink
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| | | | | | (...) Good point, but I would expand "people in your LUG" to include people who post heavily in your favorite forums. There are a lot of people (heck, I've never been to a brickfest, so pretty much everyone on Lugnet) that I've never met in person, (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
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| | | | | | (...) Simple, timely and sentimental - makes sense to me. Also, highlights are about the post, not the MOC. One could argue that most of the people who would appreciate Kyle's MOC (.mecha-meisters and .space-cadets) would have already seen his post (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET —Mark Jordan
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| | | | (...) This is a very important consideration - I think there is a big difference between voting for a particular contest, and highlighting just to bring something to broader attention. (20 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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