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In lugnet.general, Shaun Sullivan wrote:
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Frustrated Comments Ahead:
Is there any summary information available to try and understand how some of
the major AFOL resources are now being administered? Both Lugnet and
Brickshelf seem to have undergone major practical changes in the last few
weeks a months, many of which have seriously jeopardized their utility (in my
opinion).
Lugnet: I have traditionally relied heavily on the Spotlight column to
direct my attention to MOCs of particular value and interest. I don’t limit
my viewings to those that are spotlighted, but I’ve always known that I can
find a number of MOCs worth seeing and examining there. Somewhere along the
lines this has changed, undoubtedly in response to the malignant encroachment
of non-MOC (off-topic, inflammatory, negative, editorial, etc) posts that
were dominating the spotlight column. The result is a spotlight column that
has sacrificed nearly ALL of its relevance. This morning I went through the
list and 3 of them were articles posted in the last 30 minutes, none of which
had actually received any peer review (spotlighting or highlighting), and 2
of which linked to Brickshelf folders that had not even been made public yet.
What skewed algorithm dictates that these get bumped onto a Spotlight list?
I suspect that it’s because all of them were posted to the .moc newsgroup; if
the suppostion that this is the only requisite criterion needed for
“spotlight” status is in fact true then the spotlight function has lost much
of its value. I do not consider today an isolated instance, either – several
times in the past few weeks I’ve found spotlighted items which I imagine a
general consensus would indicate do not belong on the list.
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You can get the justification for the Spotlight weights
here and
here. This bit strikes me as
particularly absurd:
These can be tweaked as necessary. And will be, if we can’t get
spotlighting to highlight what we believe people truly want to see
highlighted.
Of course, the easiest way to see what people want highlighted would be to count
the number of highlights. But the admins don’t see it that way, I guess.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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