Re: Totally insignificant and probably matters only to me bu
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:33 pm
Montana Matt wrote:Initially I thought it would probably take a week or more to make the changes to the database and code to implement a change to the voting system. But if all that has to change is the way the score is calculated, that should only be a day or two. Once that's done, I can move onto something else.
That is great to hear! I had hoped, and anticipated, that it might not be too prohibitive. I truely do think all that is needed is a change to the calculation formula, not a change to the voting process itself. Perhaps this will end up an even easier change than like/dislike system (which requires an interface change).
Note that if we change the range of page scores, I think at some point it may be worth changing how the power points are calculated for the page owners. Currently (according to the faqs) this is an exponential function for high scoring pages. If we modified this (and even simpler basic formula change) perhaps the concern over high profile pages and their scores would be mitigated. I have some ideas here two but didn't want to pile on unitl you were ready. It's much simpler than the page score calculation. (Also I think less important... since it is more invisible to the users... but the impacts will be seen when folks see their profile pages).
Montana Matt wrote:However, the Featured Pages on the right side bar and the POTX images could be randomized to some degree, based on score and a random element. Let me know if you have concrete ideas of what you'd like to see changed Dow and I promise I will listen very intently.
High level thoughts I have include making at least one third of the featured articles, TRs, and pages change daily. The daily change could be to a randomly selected previously featured page (there are TONS in the database by now, that most users have never had the chance to notice). I would change featured pages more frequently in general. Perhaps instead of having them up there for two weeks at a time, have them for 2 days at a time for 25% of the time over a 1 month period (automatically popping in and back out along with other manually selected pages).
I would also change the layout, to put rapidly changing things at the top (like new members and featured photos) and stale stuff at the bottom (like the 'New to SP' links). We all want new members to see those links, but I don't think we are getting the full value of the home page asset with the links where they are.