What's the answer to this enigma?

[Dan Gross]

1,000 page views = ignored?

[Nanker]

1,000 page views = ignored?

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It was 10 when AKC started.

 

I think it's a hueristics thing. At least, for me it is. I skim very lightly at the top of most web pages - yes, even THE board - and don't begin to pay attention until my eyes reach the main topic listing. That's how I read the main page. Pinning the Official Lost thread didn't help either. Why go THERE?

 

BTW, Props to Lori for another good read.

[R. Rich]

Could it be that Lori is SO on the money, many people are intimidated to even discuss things with her? 

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That's certainly true for me.

[Dan Gross]

It was 10 when AKC started.

 

I think it's a hueristics thing. At least, for me it is. I skim very lightly at the top of most web pages - yes, even THE board - and don't begin to pay attention until my eyes reach the main topic listing. That's how I read the main page. Pinning the Official Lost thread didn't help either. Why go THERE?

 

BTW, Props to Lori for another good read.

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Well, AKC listed 100. Regardless it's an interesting scenario. As her posts are excellent must-read material (count me among those 100), they dno't lend themselves to a lot of conversation beyond "hey, I remember that" or the dreaded "excellent post." So leaving it "float" would get it fast buried under the online GM's who each have to state their own opinion on whatever the current great debate is by way of a separate thread. Pinning the thread helps it stay where it belongs at the top of the main page, but it seems pinned threads get largely ignored unless it's a thread that people are looking for (like the latest LOST thread, for example). I have noticed that the threads received more page views as unpinned threads...shall we go back to that?

[KnightRider]

I have noticed that the threads received more page views as unpinned threads...shall we go back to that?

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IMHO, no. It's easier to find at the top than searching Lori's posts... I don't usually go look for it before the weekend, though, as I have more time then...

[Bill from NYC]

Well, AKC listed 100.  Regardless it's an interesting scenario.  As her posts are excellent must-read material (count me among those 100), they dno't lend themselves to a lot of conversation beyond "hey, I remember that" or the dreaded "excellent post."  So leaving it "float" would get it fast buried under the online GM's who each have to state their own opinion on whatever the current great debate is by way of a separate thread.  Pinning the thread helps it stay where it belongs at the top of the main page, but it seems pinned threads get largely ignored unless it's a thread that people are looking for (like the latest LOST thread, for example).  I have noticed that the threads received more page views as unpinned threads...shall we go back to that?

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Since you asked, count me as one who would rather see it pinned. These previews are just so good that I want to read them as soon as they appear, and pinning them makes them easier to find, as you said.

[Nanker]

Well, AKC listed 100.  Regardless it's an interesting scenario.  As her posts are excellent must-read material (count me among those 100), they dno't lend themselves to a lot of conversation beyond "hey, I remember that" or the dreaded "excellent post."  So leaving it "float" would get it fast buried under the online GM's who each have to state their own opinion on whatever the current great debate is by way of a separate thread.  Pinning the thread helps it stay where it belongs at the top of the main page, but it seems pinned threads get largely ignored unless it's a thread that people are looking for (like the latest LOST thread, for example).  I have noticed that the threads received more page views as unpinned threads...shall we go back to that?

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I dunno. I guess for me it was a lesson to look a little more carefully at the top of the page. Lori's high quality analysis makes great reading. Those should probably be pinned. Lunkheads like me should care enough to look more closely "above the fold" as it were.

[AKC]

Since you asked, count me as one who would rather see it pinned. These previews are just so good that I want to read them as soon as they appear, and pinning them makes them easier to find, as you said.

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I'm thinking something along the lines of pinned plus a feature like flashing/fading etc., something to catch the eye up on top.

[/dev/null]

I went with A Pinned topics go unnoticed by most users of TSW

Option B There are only 100 fans using this message board is wrong as there are well over 100 fans on this board. Some members may even have over 100 user names

Fans are looking past the Raider game to NE, true, but some fans are looking past the Raiders and NE to the Super Bowl

There's no reference to Retatta or Cowbells in Lori's Title: Lori's posts need no cowbell

[Nanker]

I'm thinking something along the lines of pinned plus a feature like flashing/fading etc., something to catch the eye up on top.

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That would be very good. Maybe there's an animated Post Icon available (other than the one).

[Kelly the Dog]

Well, AKC listed 100.  Regardless it's an interesting scenario.  As her posts are excellent must-read material (count me among those 100), they dno't lend themselves to a lot of conversation beyond "hey, I remember that" or the dreaded "excellent post."  So leaving it "float" would get it fast buried under the online GM's who each have to state their own opinion on whatever the current great debate is by way of a separate thread.  Pinning the thread helps it stay where it belongs at the top of the main page, but it seems pinned threads get largely ignored unless it's a thread that people are looking for (like the latest LOST thread, for example).  I have noticed that the threads received more page views as unpinned threads...shall we go back to that?

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DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.

A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the moderators--

WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing mods into it again.

DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--

ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who posts

in that pinned forum?

WOMAN: No one posts there.

ARTHUR: Then who is your mod?

WOMAN: We don't have a mod.

ARTHUR: What?

DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take

it in turns to act as a sort of executive mod for the week.

ARTHUR: Yes.

DENNIS: But all the decision of that mod have to be ratified

at a special biweekly meeting.

ARTHUR: Yes, I see.

DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

[Nanker]

DENNIS:  You're fooling yourself.  We're living in a dictatorship.

      A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the moderators--

  WOMAN:  Oh there you go, bringing mods into it again.

  DENNIS:  That's what it's all about if only people would--

  ARTHUR:  Please, please good people.  I am in haste.  Who posts

      in that pinned forum?

  WOMAN:  No one posts there.

  ARTHUR:  Then who is your mod?

  WOMAN:  We don't have a mod.

  ARTHUR:  What?

  DENNIS:  I told you.  We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.  We take

      it in turns to act as a sort of executive mod for the week.

  ARTHUR:  Yes.

  DENNIS:  But all the decision of that mod have to be ratified

      at a special biweekly meeting.

  ARTHUR:  Yes, I see.

  DENNIS:  By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

  ARTHUR:  Be quiet!

  DENNIS:  --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

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Hmmm... So it's really kinda like a Senate Committee.

I'm beginning to see the light.

[/dev/null]

DENNIS:  You're fooling yourself.  We're living in a dictatorship.

      A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the moderators--

  WOMAN:  Oh there you go, bringing mods into it again.

  DENNIS:  That's what it's all about if only people would--

  ARTHUR:  Please, please good people.  I am in haste.  Who posts

      in that pinned forum?

  WOMAN:  No one posts there.

  ARTHUR:  Then who is your mod?

  WOMAN:  We don't have a mod.

  ARTHUR:  What?

  DENNIS:  I told you.  We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.  We take

      it in turns to act as a sort of executive mod for the week.

  ARTHUR:  Yes.

  DENNIS:  But all the decision of that mod have to be ratified

      at a special biweekly meeting.

  ARTHUR:  Yes, I see.

  DENNIS:  By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--

  ARTHUR:  Be quiet!

  DENNIS:  --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--

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yeah great, whatever.

 

which way to castle anthrax?