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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.
Brickshelf: Every day or two for the past three years I’ve gone to Brickshelf
and scanned through the recent folders until I’ve reviewed any and all items
that look interesting. This has always been easily accomplished because the
ORDER of the galleries added to the “recent” pages has always been
chronological. Unless a moderator is adding galleries while I happen to be
reviewing them, the relative positions of the galleries on the “recent” pages
remained static, a fact which allowed me to easily navigate back and forth, into
and out of galleries, until I’d seen everything that piqued my interest. Now
the “recent” pages seem to be randomly ordered – a fact which becomes painfully
clear if you click “reload” or the “recent” link while on a page in the recent
uploads area. The galleries all shuffle, making any sort of logical or
progressive review all but impossible.
Is there any easily-accessible summary or explanation for either of these
changes? Note that I’m not interested in sifting through long threads that
have 200 or more posts to them, for I consider that quite inaccessible.
In any case, I find it a real shame that the functionality of these sites has
been compromised so severely through these changes. I have no problem giving
the respective administrators the benefit of the doubt and assuming that there
was a rationale decision for these modifications, but I sincerely hope that the
current state of affairs is only an interim step that leads back to a higher
level of utility.
Shaun
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