A Final Solution to the Wiki Question

[Sam Losco]

You should already be seeing the new highlighting preference and it should include horrifically bad posts. It won't be drastic but I'm hoping it'll be more entertaining than just "good" posts.

Does that mean you have a different highlight for bad posts vs good posts or is it the same?

 

[Null]

Does that mean you have a different highlight for bad posts vs good posts or is it the same?

Maybe in the future, for now it's what it is.

 

[GethN7]

All the particularly negative one could likely get a red highlight in the future to highlight the really crappy ones.

Having the really good posts highlighted works just fine for now though.

 

[YayLasagna]

I'll figure out how I want to do "jump to next highlight".

my stupid ass almost asked this exact question in response

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Any thoughts on users receiving forum trophies for having X number of highlighted posts?

 

[Philosophy Phil]

Holy fuck, I went from happily anticipating my 7777 score a week ago to suddenly being 11,000.
@Null Are you friends with a certain blue bear who enjoys inflation?

 

[Floop]

I have my first highlight! I feel accomplished!

And I like how your profile pictures are now cropped properly to include the whole thing. Some look taller than others.

Edit: thanks for the gold

 

[Dom Cruise]

Thanks for extending avatars.

 

[kūhaku]

Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes this system to turn into karma whoring to get highlighted posts?

 

[Floop]

Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes this system to turn into karma whoring to get highlighted posts?

I like to think our users don’t fall for karma whoring

 

[An Ghost]

3:2 is too long and skinny. Horizontal frames are too short vertically and too long horizontally, meaning that for many subjects we have to crop off the sides. Even if we fit our subject into it, the final image has less area due to the shorter vertical dimension compared to squarer formats. 3:2 images just don't have the life of images that can breathe inside the larger frame of slightly squarer images.

Vertical shots are even worse with this format; we almost always have to crop off top and bottom to get a decently shaped vertical rectangle.

This is why may digital SLR and mirrorless cameras allow in-camera cropping back to the correct 4:5 aspect ratio.

No one aspect ratio fits every subject. Every photo must be cropped as needed. The correct camera aspect ratio is the one that lets us do the least cropping on average to create the final images we want as we shoot what we shoot.

Most photos wind up needing to be cropped to somewhere between 4:5 and 3:4, as all professional cameras have been since the invention of photography.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Anyone want to take bets on how long it takes this system to turn into karma whoring to get highlighted posts?

The pretty colors from my notifications are giving me endorphin rushes already.

 

[registered 2 hide avatars]

I am probably going to remove the green top border once the ability to jump to the next highlight is added. The border is just there now so people can see what the system likes as it is now.

Perfect! Very happy to see this. Good job Null

 

[TaterBot]

Maybe it's just the types of threads I've been reading...but the highlighted ones I've seen so far are not at all representative of the type of information you need to get up to speed quickly on the subject of the thread. Wasn't that the whole point?


On the plus side, there are no "Die, you" or "kys" so far.

 

[a_lurker]

I feel a great sense of pride when I find out what posts of mine are highlighted.

1 2 3

If your going for old-school ED wiki, significant progress has been made.

 

[Lesbian Sleepover]

Any chance we can toss some data-science at this, for Wiki Formatting etc? Could run the data through some libraries for pattern recognition and teach it to write the wiki.

 

[Failure_Personified]

Oh great let's make these neets even more autistic about ratings

To expand on your point.

I think there is something to be said about structure and it's reliance on imposed limitations.
Something like a heavy weighted rating will lead to rating abuse and that's really hard to control for since how can you prove that it wasn't?

Ratings are mostly innocuous, as they should remain.

 

[Shield Breaker]

An update on this.

I've made changes so that it's possible to highlight posts based on reaction count over score. The system is going through and fully recalculating reaction scores so that if I feel the current metric is inadequate, my backup idea is ready to go. It's going to take several days for the database to finish going through the entire body of posts on the site. I've had it running for a few hours and we're only at 272,739 out of some 5.7 million.

You should already be seeing the new highlighting preference and it should include horrifically bad posts. It won't be drastic but I'm hoping it'll be more entertaining than just "good" posts.

Tomorrow I'm going to work on the less noticeable moderation/backend chore list and once I'm happy with everything I'll figure out how I want to do "jump to next highlight".

I hope I don't make you mad, but in the Chinese theme, it doesn't highlight so much as give it a red line at the top. Back when you first did it, the whole post had a gold border.


Maybe that's what it's supposed to do, and I am just dumb.

 

[Christ Cried]

At least IMO, the current highlight can be difficult to notice while scrolling

 

[BoJack Horseman]

I judt saw a post with 6 lates being a highlight. IMO Late should be excluded from the highlight weighing formula (making it weigh 0), because is just repeating something that was already known.