[thesite] [bug] t.e.o. - Other Articles Written by this Author

Daniel J. Cody djc at members.evolt.org
Fri Nov 16 13:46:29 CST 2001


ok.. but relating to how many articles show up under articles written.

we should include other categorys in the count, as it has nothing to do 
with ratings

.djc.

.jeff wrote:

> dan,
> 
> 
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>>From: Daniel J. Cody
>>
>>
>>>no argument there.  however, faq are meta-data (ie,
>>>data about the site) and therefore subject to
>>>different rules.
>>>
>>what rules would those be?
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> 
> we (this list) already decided that certain categories of articles would be
> restricted from appearing in the "highest rated articles" box in the
> sidebar.  when implementing the view articles by rating at codefest, matt
> and i followed this same rule.  when i helped implement the "other articles
> by this author" initially it included ratings as well and is still ranked by
> ratings like the two things i just mentioned.  for consistency, i think it
> should have its category of content restricted as well like the two i just
> mentioned.  now, if rudy comes up with an idea of how to do it and have
> articles in these categories returned last, then i'm cool with that.






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