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Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:10:21 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Eaton wrote:
> > You assume that the {membership} is representative of the {community}.(?)
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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:
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> 22 spotlights, 3 highlights:
> http://news.lugnet.com/news/ahh.cgi?lugnet.off-topic.test,3340
This is probably an artefact of the way highlighting works. So far as I can see,
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 "downlight" option, then I am sure people would actively use it to push
stories they don't like back into "oblivion", thus increasing the number of
voters. I could see it becoming an issue.
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 | | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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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' (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Language Choices and LUGNET
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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