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by dr dij
My OLD discussion on philly wi-fi city net was only 18 posts and is hanging around on hot.
While Max's disucssion on on health care costs (226 posts) isn't on the list!
What's with this?
by mjd420nova
a hot discussion is usually started by one entry
that sets half of us reading one thing and the
other half another, and the debate call ignite into a whole different slant than what was originally intended.
by oz_media
Miscellaneous discussions are purposely eliminated from HOT discussions.
1) they are not really IT related and we get Yahoo.com's complaining all the time, about this being an IT site and they read a 600 post discussion post by post, offered a long rant about it and then said it's not appropriate on TR etc.
2) The off topic threads would often dominate that entire list and would remain there perpetually as they seem to go on a long time.
SO when someone STUMBLES upon TR by a search or something, it looks better to have a few current and relevant topics as HOT topics than to have, Friday Yuk or Why I hate American politics etc. on the home page.
They don't discourage the posts, but I have to accept that TR is a tech support site.
BUT...if you are a REAL PEER (not a wannabe) ;), you will be subscribed to the Newsletter and would get a list called TOO HOT for TR, which highlights the most popular OFF topic discussions.
(how have I slipped to #7 with bang-on comments like that? I bet it's probably something BUSH had his hand in, I could post every minute for 8 years and still get pushed to the 101 slot, just to get my avatar off the list, I tell you 'that boy aint right!')
by dr dij
Thanks Oz
Now I understand why EL not on the list. Not that I'd want it to be.
by gralfus
by oz_media
THat's what the TR guys have said.
PERHAPS, because it was an indication of someone staying with TR for a ong time, it is good PR or something. As opposed to just a joke topic or political/religious thread, though it is changing rapidly as we segue into politics and religion.
But I know that there's a purposeful elemination of miscellanous threads from the Hot Topics, and they are listed in the newsletter as Too Hot for TR, as explained by the site designers.
Beyond that, you'd have to ask them why they would choose one miscellaneous post for HOT topics.
by firstpeter
It's because it's OZ - that's why. EVERYBODY wants to hear what Oz has to say. He's only driven one person from this site in over 10K posts (although if you read the "I'm leaving because of Oz" post you'd probably believe 9K of those 10K posts were directly aimed at destroying the character of the poster who's leaving) - that's a pretty good track record.
;)
That is a really interesting question, though. I see TRs point (since it IS a tech site), but heck - some of the tech discussions get off on politics as easily as misc conversations get on to technology.
by jdclyde
for some reason the rest of us are confused by....
lol!
Actually, it isn't really too far off IT topic. It shows that TR can hold on to members for more than a few weeks. That someone has been around that long and still comes back shows there must be something of value to everyone else.
At least that is my story and I'm sticking to it.
by jaqui
an embarassment thread.
it's a post that says there are memebers that do spend time contributing.
by Jay Garmon
First off, the Hot List is based on an algorithm built into the Jive database, which uses queries to the discussion database as a key metric. In layman's terms, it accounts for both how often a post is read, not just posted to. A thread could theoretically get hot with just one post if thousands of people read it, as occasionally happens to controversial news stories promoted in our IT News e-mail newsletter.
Miscellaneous as a category is not excluded. We have a manual exclusion process where we can "suppress" a thread that is too far afield from IT. (You'll notice that these things creep into the lists during holidays and weekends, when no one is around to supress them.)
However, we let the threads that discuss site features or site issues stay up, even if they are from Miscellaneous, and even if they criticize us. This isn't about censorship, just promotional discretion.
As to "Too Hot for TR," that's a feature we run in the Community NetNote, a weekly e-mail newsletter. THFTR lists the top five most active "suppressed" threads, based on posts. You can sign up for that newsletter here.
http://nl.com.com/existing.jsp?list_id=e129
I also post the full text of all the Community NetNotes as discussions, and tag them. You can view the full archive here.
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5260-1-0.html?query=community%20netnote
by jdclyde
For the Blog, is it possible to add a note of how many times they have been read? Kind of give a blogger an idea if anyone is looking or not? Or at least make this something you could look up?
Thanks!
by jck
I like less and less in life.
My sister (the bitch) was right...I'm becoming a bitter, lonely old man.
oh well...at least I have my Guinness!!!! :D
by firstpeter
by jck
but
a) he's not big enough to physically take it from me himself
b) he'd need to kill me to get if from me involuntarily (or ask...I'd share if he was nice about it)
c) he doesn't appreciate Guinness, so he wouldn't try to take it anyways
Nonetheless...me and my Guinness...well...it's the only love I have in my house right now...
My goodness...My Guinness!! :)
by Jay Garmon
by jdclyde
I eagerly await.
You get your attaboy for the day.
by jdclyde
light, refreshing, and absolutely no flavor to stand in the way of your enjoying it.
As far as taking it away, I don't have to be bigger, just faster.
And I wouldn't take it to DRINK. Beer makes a GREAT fertilizer for my trees!
by jck
jdclyde,
you must realize...as long as I've been single (36 years), I've got a REALLY good grip...especially in my right (drinking) hand...ok? got the picture?
speed won't get that beer from my hand...unless it's empty and you have another one ready for me...and again, no offense...but, I don't wanna see you in an apron. ;)
go cook some ribs now, dammit!!! :P
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