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Subject:	Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:07:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Allister McLaren wrote:

In lugnet.general, Bob Parker wrote:

In lugnet.general, Gereon Stein wrote:

Just a quick update:

I’ve taken a little time and implemented a read-counter for web access to news posts.

Now for display of individual articles you will find a new header line saying “Viewed: X times” - it should show the actual views of that respective article minus the current view (update happens after the article is displayed completely).

Holy @#%$!!! That was some fast programming, sir. I bet this may even surpass invite to chat in terms of Great Contributions to the Community!

I’m sure no-one will abuse the system by reloading the page multiple times to increase their own view count either. Just like no-one self-spotlights now ;)

;)

You know, I actually could have implemented some kind of reload-blocking, but then again I’m pretty sure the effort wouldn’t pay off in the long run.

I have just checked the read counts collected since the update, and it lists some 16,000 articles with a total of 28,000 reads in the last 9 hours, counts for some articles running as high as 160 - marking an article as particularly interesting by reloading it often does appear more of a pain than self-spotlighting after all...

Anyway, I haven’t yet thought about new listings like “last XX posts by user” or “top XX posts by read count” - it’s rather some sort of “receipt” just like Gary asked for in the first place, so posters can see whether their articles actually find a readership. Thus, it can’t be in the poster’s own interest to make articles “appear” like they were accessed frequently. Noone would search for articles based on these criteria anyway. Or would you?

Regards,

Jerry

Message has 2 Replies:

		Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
(...) All I can say to that is People Are Weird (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)

		Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
(...) First of all, this is a really nice addition to LUGNET. Thanks, Jerry. Even apart from the worry over some LUGNET posters intentionally driving up their own "view counts" for egotistical reasons, I would appreciate some sort of reload-blocking (...) (16 years ago, 10-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)

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		Re: How to properly "announce" MOC's
(...) I'm sure no-one will abuse the system by reloading the page multiple times to increase their own view count either. Just like no-one self-spotlights now ;) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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