Can we at least see the tally of recs and unrecs? Please?

[JackRiddler]

I can imagine almost everyone would agree that it's interesting to know whether, for example, a thread gets to +5 because of 5 recs and 0 unrecs, or because of 300 for and 295 against. So how about displaying all three figures on the OP (not on the front page, of course)?

It might end the controversy and there is an unconfusing way to do it. Something like this:

+Z (X Recs Y Unrecs)

[BlooInBloo]

1. I think they took that away to protect highly unrec'd threads from additional ridicule.

[billyoc]

2. But that's why I need it, to heap on additional ridicule!

What about ME? :rofl:

[RandomThoughts]

3. There could also be an averaging system.

where total recs and unrecs are added together to show how much a message is considered valuable.

For instance every 10 recs or unrecs is +1 more rec.

[TexasObserver]

4. Yeah, that would be awesome, but the easily offended would never recover.

Notice how some are in a panic simply because there's a negative number by their thread. Imagine if they had to see 4 Recommends and 434 Unrecommends.

[Laelth]

5. Personally, I'd like a "Hottest Topics" page.

I'd like a hottest topics page--one that ranks threads by the highest sum of recommends and unrecommends. That would display threads that were rich in controversy and discussion, ideas that push people's buttons (the ones that are actually worthy of discussion).

Such a page would make me completely happy (if there were a nice little icon to it at the top of the forum) and then the Greatest Page could be a nice, happy liberal news feed (as it is, evidently, intended to be).

:dem:

-Laelth

[BlooInBloo]

6. I suggested that yesterday. Didn't get much traction...

Of course, it could well have been simply because I'm the one who said it.

[Laelth]

8. Sorry, I missed where you suggested it.

Great minds, you know. ;)

I'm spreading the idea around in a few threads. We'll see what happens.

:dem:

-Laelth

[BlooInBloo]

10. And a couple of quibbling suggestions to the idea....

(1) Minimum 30 total recs/unrecs. (Or some number - 1 rec, 1 unrec is not a hot thread)

(2) A thread with 100 recs and 1 unrec isn't exactly controversial, and would already be on the Greatest anyway. What this suggestion is after is something like "too hot for Greatest" - lol. Rather than just taking the sum of rec + unrec, use a function that measures "how close recs are to unrecs".

It's straightforward to come up with scoring functions that meet both of these goals.


EDIT: Modeling is the shit.

[Laelth]

11. That makes perfect sense.

The net recs + unrecs would have to be less than 5 (otherwise it would be on the greatest page). I think 30 is fine as a minimum number of recs + unrecs. That would work.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Mojorabbit]

7. What a wonderful idea! nt

[Deja Q]

9. Self-del

Thought I saw it that way earlier... oh well.

[SpartanDem]

12. I agree I liked it better when we could see the totals

[JackRiddler]

13. Lasted for about an hour.

[crickets]

14. Same here. -nt