[Theforum] New feature suggestions

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Tue Nov 13 17:42:49 CST 2001


madhu,

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> From: Madhu Menon
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> Anything that involves page views can very easily be
> manipulated, IMHO. If I wrote an article, I would either
> keep pressing F5 or get a small script to do it for me.
> Not reliable at all.
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an acceptable risk.  99.9% of the users wouldn't bother with this.  fwiw,
there's nothing keeping a user from registering multiple user accounts and
rating their own articles a 5 with each fake user account thereby
artificially inflating the article's rating.  there's also nothing to keep
users from leaving comments that contain nothing but spam in them rather
than content related to the article being viewed.

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> What we do need to do is dig up articles with low
> readership, but which have genuine merit in them. Then
> we need to circulate them on the home page.
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agreed, but a separate issue.  views lends an extra level of credibility to
the ratings.  an article with a ton of views but only a sparse number of
ratings obviously isn't as compelling as an article with a closer ratio of
ratings to views.

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> Perhaps within categories, we can have a "Sort by
> rating" option in addition to the "Sort by date" that's
> currently in place.
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sure, but that will mean that pre-v2.0 articles which, for the most part,
are not rated will fall to the end, even though they may be top quality.  if
something like this is going to be useful, we'll need to figure out how to
get those older quality articles in front of the readers and get them to
rate them.

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> And how about a "Random article of the day" option? :)
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already got a random article coming out of the database for every page load
of the homepage.  (http://test.evolt.org/)

the longterm solution is to handpick and flag articles for revival.

thanks,

.jeff

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