A Final Solution to the Wiki Question

[lamp shade]

I like the “jump to next highlight” feature because I can see it getting annoying if the highlighted posts took the reader out of the thread each time.

Whatever you do, please don’t make it a “sage” process where all of the threads turn into 50% “sage your shit!” comments.

 

[Wish I knew]

Reposting this idea i had since around October

As someone who used to lurk this site one of the features I always wish would be added was a feature to sort by certain things like reaction scores or pictures on a thread, let’s say you wanted to find pictures or content in a cow thread with over 1000+ pages. If you could sort posts by a reaction score or only filter the thread so that it only has pictures you could cut a huge thread down to less pages and hell a thing were you can sort pages by date (ex. any posts between 1/15/16-2/13/16) it would be less annoying and repetitive than constantly clicking every page just to find one thing.

Something where you could filter posts by images videos or ratings would be nice for finding content in threads.

 

[James Smith]

I am debating between adding a totally new threaded view of just the best posts, or adding a button that says "jump to next highlight" while keeping you in the real view of the thread. I am leaning towards the latter.

Seems like a nice potential feature.

 

[Null]

I like the idea, but I also agree current implementation isn't working.

Are there any concerns about rate-brigading? I know this is a big issue on reddit, and we definitely have enough mangry troons hyperfocused on us to organize rate-brigades for whatever posts they want to be most visible in whatever thread. They don't do it now because rates don't really mean anything, but anything those types can do, no matter how autistic, to control the narrative is something they will do.

Are you aware this isn't actually reddit gold? Should I change the color to help people understand?

 

[Token Weeaboo]

Are you aware this isn't actually reddit gold? Should I change the color to help people understand?

No. the color works well with the light and dark themes. The only other color I could think of is it being squared like it is with (Place theme they are using here)'s secondary color. We aren't reddit, the color should only matter to its visibility.

 

[Smug Cat]

Are you aware this isn't actually reddit gold? Should I change the color to help people understand?

lmao I gotchu, but the intent is to make it an easier-to-find and more-focused-upon post, right? Anything that does that effectively is likely to be targeted by speds if it's reasonably possible to influence.

 

[Twinkie]

I have no idea how to computer but it's unlikely that there would be enough "brigading speds" to make a difference in how the thingy works.

 

[Toast Sandwich]

Something that might help give an overview of the activity of a thread: A sort of page heat map. Highlight the numbers in the page navigation to different degrees, dependent on how many high-scoring posts there are in each page.

It doesn't address the wikification exactly but it could help navigation mid-thread feel less like a stabbing in the dark. For me anyway. I don't know how good it would sound to others.

 

[killuminati]

I am debating between adding a totally new threaded view of just the best posts, or adding a button that says "jump to next highlight" while keeping you in the real view of the thread. I am leaning towards the latter.

This would be the best way to implement a feature like this IMO.

It's basically a glorified "parse by rating" situation-type-deal; and that's definitely a desirable thing to have; However I think it should also be implemented in a way that keeps it from being a distraction for those who don't mind reading through threads at their own leisure.

 

[Agent of Z.O.G.]

Null is a feeder
ok everyone please upboat this post

 

[Slamerella]

I agree. Giving extra weight to 'inforamtive' and 'semper fidelis' can help make sure some joke on the first page isn't the one with the gold border.

Informative is good but if we gauge it based on informative reactions, let's just hope we can get a council to filter out the posts that aren't actually informative to the person involved (or, if it involves a community, like fighting games, it teaches about terms such as zoning or rushdown briefly, if it were to involve someone like DSP.)

 

[Coffee Shits]

Are you aware this isn't actually reddit gold? Should I change the color to help people understand?

Switching the outline to #6ba65e (general accent color: the color of links, quote border-left, outline button color etc) would help even if you didn't know what Reddit Gold is. It says "hey look at this" while not being so garish. Stays true to the muted color scheme the default forum theme has.

 

[Angry Shoes]

lmao I gotchu, but the intent is to make it an easier-to-find and more-focused-upon post, right? Anything that does that effectively is likely to be targeted by speds if it's reasonably possible to influence.

The mods here seem pretty good at identifying sock accounts. Also tards can currently rate-brigade, but they don't.

@Null even though you've explicitly said that this will be an automatic process, will there be an option for mods to override the decision? It seems like there will be instances where uninformative posts will have the 'wiki' border due to high ratings, so is there a way to remove this and add it to the posts that are actually wiki-worthy manually?

 

[Toast Sandwich]

This would be the best way to implement a feature like this IMO.

It's basically a glorified "parse by rating" situation-type-deal; and that's definitely a desirable thing to have; However I think it should also be implemented in a way that keeps it from being a distraction for those who don't mind reading through threads at their own leisure.

Of course, the trouble with any kind of score threshold feature is you'll get a non-insignificant portion of thread viewings only displaying the already higher scoring posts, meaning the low scoring posts have less of a chance to get their scores raised and be seen at that same threshold. The effect would be only a small percentage change overall, but it could still be statistically significant.

 

[Shady Attorney]

Maybe one way to alleviate missing pieces of information is by allowing users to search a thread specifically to their specifications? “Best of ” or “Best of “ and so on

That way the user could tune in and out what they want to see specifically in the thread. I’d love an option to have “Best of :autism: :dumb:”

edit: could also allow the user to specify the threshold a post needs to pass to get highlighted. Maybe there should also be a median given by the filter to show the average rating of posts in a thread to help the user choose the cap for filtering results

 

[peanus weenus]

More of a reason to karma whore on the farms.

EDIT: Thanks for the gold kind stranger

 

[Smug Cat]

The mods here seem pretty good at identifying sock accounts. Also tards can currently rate-brigade, but they don't.

Right, but like I said in my earlier post, the ratings don't currently do anything so they don't have any reason to. Making the rates matter in terms of who sees what creates a new incentive.

 

[Consider Lizärds]

So much change on the site, I'm not partial to it. I remember when all this was fields. Remember when John Fields came to town and bought up nigh on every patch o' land? We soon showed him what's whut.

However, to get back on topic regarding ratings and highlights and what have you, I have no real opinion either ways.

 

[ClipBitch]

The posts I see most often with a ton of ratings are funny rather than informative ones. Would it be possible to instead make some kind of new moderator-like role and allow these chosen people to act as librarians? They could sort thru threads and pin informative posts to the OP or whatever.

Edit: just fully read the thread. Didn't see it's a no on manual curation.

 

[drain]

Nice idea, and I personally think that adding a ''sort of by x rating'' would be a good thing, but I'm not a programmer so I don't know if this is a viable thing to do.

For example, we could have a ''sort by'' option for basically three major ratings ''winner, informative, semper fidelis'', because usually posts with these are informative/have interesting content. Some funny/shitpost-y ones would get thrown in the middle, but I really see no issue with that. I mean, if I want ''informative'' posts and click on the informative icon to sort these kinds of posts, I wouldn't mind having some nice but shitpost-y ones in the middle, because honestly, what's the matter with that? Some people here want to put filters on filters on filters and I think this isn't even possible.