After Laughter (Comes Tears)
posted by max on June 12, 2007 at 06:45:13 PM
I've always felt that YTMND should focus more on the content being produced than the users that produce the content itself.
Back in 2004 a lot of the content on the front page included links to a user's profile and at some point in time this stopped.
While the site's identity continues to grow, there isn't much of an outlet for users to gain an identity beyond their sites.
With suggestions and help from others I've created a beta version of a new scoring system that will privately rank users based on a number of criteria. This can then be used to give users who create great content more exposure, as well as being used as a method of highlighting content that will most likely be generally well received. Obviously the algorithm will be tweaked over the next few weeks but I hope to make it a useful part of the site. I don't want to turn this into a popularity contest, so for the time being I have no plans of publishing a list of users with associated scores.
Another upcoming change is the Hall-of-Fame, which will see a total re-haul. The Hall-of-Fame has not reflected the true spirit of YTMND and has been used as a repository of sorts. A lot of the items that don't belong will be removed and a lot that do belong will be added.
With suggestions and help from others I've created a beta version of a new scoring system that will privately rank users based on a number of criteria. This can then be used to give users who create great content more exposure, as well as being used as a method of highlighting content that will most likely be generally well received. Obviously the algorithm will be tweaked over the next few weeks but I hope to make it a useful part of the site. I don't want to turn this into a popularity contest, so for the time being I have no plans of publishing a list of users with associated scores.
Another upcoming change is the Hall-of-Fame, which will see a total re-haul. The Hall-of-Fame has not reflected the true spirit of YTMND and has been used as a repository of sorts. A lot of the items that don't belong will be removed and a lot that do belong will be added.
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In regards to gr33n's idea, I almost think there should be an anonymous poll where all users can submit one user name they'd like to be a representative for the featured category. (no self-voting though) The result? I don't know, maybe a lot of the same names would turn up.. it's always a popularity contest. The main difference is that you'd get more variety probably. Inkdrinker and others with low rated sites would show up, for example.
For those who dislike the featured list algorithm... if there was a poll, would it not be fair then? Since the users themselves would literally decide the names who go in, there would be a lot less complaints about the result. Top 50 users nominated might end up including names like MurdarMachene, directory, AwesomeBob, karndude, etc.. users that have some following, though weren't included by the featured users algorithm.
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I really think that you and a small group of trusted mods need to spend a few hours and evaluate everyone on the featured user list. The fact that WTL is on the list really pisses me off. All his popular sites are stolen from 4chan and you now risk having a goatse site on the featured section. He represent everything that is wrong with YTMND, yet all of his sites get highlighted now.
Not to mention he's now accumulating roughly 2,000 downvotes A DAY, as of recently. Before you had to view sites to vote on them, it was still extremely time consuming to rack up 1,000 a day. Even if you put me and Btape together, it would still take around 2 weeks for us to vote as much as he 1-stars in a few days. At his current rate, He'll have a larger margin of downvotes than punisher in about a month or two if he keeps it up at this rate.
Hey max, i'm experiencing bugged NSFW voting with my #! option. When I go to a NSFW site I get the triangle overlay (though my options say I prefer otherwise), and when I click it, I am unable to vote on NSFW sites. Considering you can't seem to vote from the site profile, and only from the site, this bug makes me unable to vote. Just letting you know.
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