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Subject: 
Top Stories, Spotlight, etc.
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lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.publish
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:44:22 GMT
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QUICK TOP STORIES LIST

The "Top Stories" listing on the new homepage,

   http://www.lugnet.com/

is built automatically based on human feedback, and your opinions make a
difference!

If you are a LUGNET Member, you can help highlight things for this and other
lists:  Whenever you're signed in and you view an article through the web
interface, you'll see a box at the bottom which says "Highlight this article?"
and you can select one of two choices:

   ! Highlight
   !! Spotlight

The "Spotlight" choice makes an emphatic recommendation/vote for the article
to appear in the LUGNET Spotlight, and the "Highlight" choice makes a vote for
the article to appear highlighted in regular columnar listings, for example:

   http://news.lugnet.com/build/?n=*7000,-100&v=c

Internally, the "Highlight" choice is simply like voting 75 on a scale of
0-100 and the "Spotlight" choice is like voting 100.  Votes are averaged
automatically and ! and !! begin to appear after people weigh in.  Articles
posted to .announce.* automatically get a small +200 bump upward as part of
the averaging, and articles posted to .off-topic.* and .admin.* get a small
-100 bump downward.


THE BIG LIST

When you click the "More Top Stories" link from the homepage, it takes you to
a bigger listing:

   http://www.lugnet.com/spotlight.cgi?days=7&threshold=50&sort=fuzzy

This is an automated list working from the same data, with more viewing
options:  Select the number of days, or excitement threshold, or method of
sorting.

Please take a few moments (if you can) to review the items on the Spotlight
page which interest you, and mark them as "Highlight" or "Spotlight"!

Thanks!!!

--Todd



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