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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Improving the reduser S/N

Shawn Nelson

Shawn Nelson

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A topic of continual conversation is the less than desirable S/N ratio we've got. Amidst amazingly good posts and threads lie tons of crap. Also, good posts full of solid knowledge get lost due to locking of threads of simply the thread running its course. Knowledge that should not be buried is being lost.

My proposal is to introduce a simple rating system at the post level, change the rankings such that only registered real name users have the power of ranking and introduce searches that can access things like 'the top ten ranking posts of this week'.

Thoughts?
 
Shawn as always great idea! I think this would be a great direction to go. How to setup the system thats another question thoughts? I have my own but will hold back to hear others first.
 
Completely agree, and great idea. It takes 30 minutes of digging every day to find the 5 minutes of relevant posts.

It's almost bad enough were someone needs to set up a reduser blog that re-posts the useful posts and provides a summary of the day with links to the full threads.

(I don't think I've seen a board with the post ranking system. Most is per thread. If there is a way, it'd be great.)
 
Or a completely moderated wiki/FAQ-style "best-of-REDUSER" generated by mods combing through posts for the little nuggets of relevant knowledge... Sort of hyrbrid of what a published guide and the internet both offer.

I'm surprised there hasn't yet been the equivalent of a "Goodman's Guide" for the RED. The fact that things change so fast makes the web a better medium, I guess... but, as I say, there isn't yet an even compromise between this forum and a good ol' hardcover reference manual.
 
Cinewalt said:
Or a completely moderated wiki/FAQ-style "best-of-REDUSER" generated by mods combing through posts for the little nuggets of relevant knowledge... Sort of hyrbrid of what a published guide and the internet both offer.

I'm surprised there hasn't yet been the equivalent of a "Goodman's Guide" for the RED. The fact that things change so fast makes the web a better medium, I guess... but, as I say, there isn't yet an even compromise between this forum and a good ol' hardcover reference manual.
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But that takes a ton of time for the mods, having registered users take 1.5 sec to give a good post (or bad post) a ranking could help sift and sort. Also, the mods could do searches for threads garnering ratings of "0" for possible deletion, it'd help with the garbage collection.
 
I am not sure what would be best but something that didn't take a lot of work would definitely make it more likely. It would be nice to have something whatever it would be.
 
come'on Jarred, surely you arent going to chime in on this thread only to add noise :-).

What would be the difficulty of per-post rankings, limiting the ranking ability to only registered users and then adding ranking as a searchable attribute?
 
Well that was kinda rude Shawn...

im thinking about this though...
 
sorry Jarred, no disrespect (hence the smiley)
 
i like the idea.. it goes in line with some stuff i was thinking about.. but not only rating threads, making sure the "good" users posts count more.. letting people get a little more personal.

would be cool to let members have their own blogs too.. i like how blogs cut through the shit on the net and find the good stuff.. If a couple guys on here had blogs that kinda cut through the shit they would probably make alot of friends :)
 
yeah there are a few people that have nice ones.. they are great. I see how RECON has helped tremendously to let people cut right to what is on Jim's mind, it would be great to empower "the normal folk" to have a similar ability.. Something like a combination RECON/BLOG/FACEBOOK kinda thing.

maybe im going off the deep end here and need to get some sleep :)
 
Oh...and I was critized for critizing those tons and tons of "awesome, great, cool" posts...so much on noise.
 
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