rollback
posted by max on May 31, 2006 at 04:51:53 AM
dear ytmnd friends,
I accidently deleted a few hundred thousand users and around 400,000 sites. I had to restore from a backup which means we lost about 18 hours of YTMND time. Around 1000 ytmnds were never made, tens of thousands of votes were never made, and thousands of comments were never made.
you can thank syncan and adverb for all of this. also grey goose.
woops.
I accidently deleted a few hundred thousand users and around 400,000 sites. I had to restore from a backup which means we lost about 18 hours of YTMND time. Around 1000 ytmnds were never made, tens of thousands of votes were never made, and thousands of comments were never made.
you can thank syncan and adverb for all of this. also grey goose.
woops.
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RETOOL ytmnd. I mean, we all know by know that the top 15 is an fortunate few that submitted within a 15 minute window before the eastern midnight hour. So, I just want to 'encourage' a revision of any sorts that may even refresh that area to showcase the top 15 sites for every 2 or 3 hours?, maybe top 15 morning, afternoon, evening, night?
Giving random YTMNDs more exposure wouldn't be ENOUGH exposure to get them in the spotlight, since they're likely only displayed a few times a day. I'd say giving more attention to the "up and coming" YTMNDs makes more sense.. plus you'll have less annoying fads (Cosby) showing up there unless they're good.
I just had a theory about good sites being made in the middle of the day. They stay on Up & Coming for 3 updates then go away forever, I think there should be some kind of special section for these YTMNDs that gets reset at the end of the day, this way you don't have to wait till 11:59, or 12:29 if you have an awesome site that you think will do good. Just a thought.
Looks like 8 Up And Comings, but I'm all for it either way. I hardly look at the Top 15 anymore, and YTMND definitely should pay more attention to what's cool NOW (insert Schwarzenegger jokes here), not at some arbitrary point at midnight where some lucky Up And Comings, Epic Non-Epic Maneuvers, and OMG C4K3!!1 become Top Viewed. Thank you.
i think the Up and Coming is now a randomized listing of sites withing a certain set (sort of like the Mod Favs and the Sponsored). That set now being something like sites with 3.75 rating or higher, minimum of 6 votes, maximum of 30 votes. (something like that) Which is a better system than before.
HAY HAY HAY HAY HAY HAY EVERYBODY
Sorry, just did that so that this comment would be more noticeable. Has anyone else been having problems lately with images not loading in ytmnd sites? The sound will load for me, but the image will never show up. I have to go to the page sources and copy paste the image link into a new tab or window to figure out why a site is funny. :(
MAX!!! the new system sucks!!!! It gives downvoters a better opportunity to pick off goood YTMNDs because they dont like the fad or whatever... it also gives a disadvantage to sites submitted right after the reset. I like the classic system better, all of the top15 sucks right now because of this "new system".
its like changing the gameplay of counterstrike! HERESY!!!!
relax ppl...Lets let the kinks get worked out.. But I totally agree, the U&C needs a little more delay than now, but I'm sure things will be rockin' in no time to come. Just have the top U&C 5 sites be from the most recently submitted, and the bottom 3 U&C be rotations like they are from previous days.
i think the most interesting part of the new u&c ordeal resulted from max upping the vote limit. we were hit with all the best sites of the past week, all at once. then, they got voted out or voted down, and then the next most qualified showed up. right now, we've got all the above average yet barely qualifying sites. shouldn't be too long before not all eight spots are filled.
Max! Greatest idea ever! To prevent blind upvoting/downvoting, DON'T LET PEOPLE VOTE ON USERS' PROFILE PAGES! It won't stop downvoting/upvoting, but it'll slow it down to a degree that would make it a real hassle. Just make it so the rating shows, but you can't vote. I have no doubts that this is how user santabot downvoted 4,000 sites in one day. =/ Anyway, think about it.
A few things. When I tell people a site is crap and tell them what they did wrong, is it ok for them to come revengedownvote all my sites for the good advice? Also, 778th. Also, I would like to say that thesites that are upposed crap are actually good. But because of this new standard of no more fads and "be original" I can't be funny anymore.
"max, whenever i criticize, i get evenged. i got hit twice in the last half hour. implement a
system so people only make good sites, preventing me from mouthing off at them."
Been happening to me more often, too. I don't care if my sites are downvoted as long as people leave a reason and don't just mass downvote