Undeserved success
December 15th 2006 18:03
So there's some people who think that some posts are getting undeserved success.
Personally I think that it's fair that the criterion for being on the popular list is popularity. I don't really see an alternative.
(And, frankly, we all know what posts are going to make it there
-- just like we all pretty much know what movies are going to be popular -- and it's not as if the world is going to change much anytime soon.)
But there are various ways to give kudos to posts that deserve it and aren't getting any. Cibby's "Post of the day" blog is an obvious method.
Just taking Cib's idea and running with it... Why don't more people do "post of the day" blogs? Perhaps an open blog of this kind? If you don't like the popular posts list, why not start your own?
There's room for a couple such blogs in the Orble community. And each of them will inevitably have idiosyncratic criteria -- there's many ways to deserve kudos (good writing, entertaining, took a lot of hard work, important issue, interesting discussion, just needs encouragement, etc).
Personally I think that it's fair that the criterion for being on the popular list is popularity. I don't really see an alternative.
(And, frankly, we all know what posts are going to make it there
-- just like we all pretty much know what movies are going to be popular -- and it's not as if the world is going to change much anytime soon.)But there are various ways to give kudos to posts that deserve it and aren't getting any. Cibby's "Post of the day" blog is an obvious method.
Just taking Cib's idea and running with it... Why don't more people do "post of the day" blogs? Perhaps an open blog of this kind? If you don't like the popular posts list, why not start your own?
There's room for a couple such blogs in the Orble community. And each of them will inevitably have idiosyncratic criteria -- there's many ways to deserve kudos (good writing, entertaining, took a lot of hard work, important issue, interesting discussion, just needs encouragement, etc).
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Comment by Kams
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Comment by Ahmed
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I don't understand though, the testicles thing was hilarious, the success was justified, the problem with orble is that a few of the members are naive to the ways of the internet. They think the internet is fair, hwich it isn't, they believe there traffic will be decided immediately by the quality of their writing which it doesn't (though in the long run it iwll pay dividends).
What they don't understand is the internets purpouse is to gather and collect information and catalycise (spelling?) this between people who use the net. No more, no less.
Comment by Kams
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But as you said in the long run "quality" does pay, need to be patient that's all. Catalysis --- i guess
Comment by TonyK
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Lame idea I know, but its Saturday and the cricket is on
Comment by Ahmed
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There would only be one problem with that, I'd win the awards continuously, no one could stop me! *laughs crazily*
Honestly that would be cool, having a best-of awards for quality writing, heck, maybe we can throw in prize, like erm... a plastic cup
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Comment by JoshZ
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LOL.
Good work man.
JZ
Comment by Ahmed
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Comment by The Voices in my Head
The Voices in my Head
1. indicating we are superior to the people who are clicking and commenting on the posts that inevitably end up on Orble's current popular list.
2. We are replacing one popular list with another and others will eventually think that the posts on our lists are all our friends or network and therefore unfair.
and 3. If we do this, wouldn't we, by the very foundation this concept is based on, have to read every single post on Orble to determine those that have been overlooked in the past, to determine the actual best post of the day?
I love this concept. But a popular list is a popular list no matter how you look at it. I have often thought about doing my own post of the day before but these issues always stop me.
Voices~
Comment by Cibbuano
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I agree with Voices, though - you could make your own popular blogs list, but you probably won't sift through 1000 blogs, and someone will still feel neglected!
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