Should off-topic boards qualify for autofeatures?

[Null]

The autofeature system looks as attached. The boards for inclusion was Lolcow boards that have many subjects (Lolcow + All boards in the second category) that have over 50 posts. It's been that way for a very long time, but recently I expanded it to include all Off-Topic boards and raised the post requirement to 75. The full list of options are attached.

This poll isn't binding, but I'm taking a head count. A lot of our traffic is guest traffic as well and they can't vote. If you're a particularly opinionated lurker with no account you can email me at null@kiwifarms.net.

 

[Rokko]

No/exclude OT, except Articles&Happenings. I guess A&H threads have been featured manually until now?

 

[Star Wormwood]

Voted for excluding the news board, I come here for my haha funnies, not faggotrons debating dead babby ethics.

 

[Pepito The Cat]

Seems Ok. It's not a big aggressive change and if it relieves the admins from some of the work, welcome aboard.

Edit: I voted to exclude the news section because the discussion of those topics tend to be more scattered than other subs.

 

[Judge Holden]

I would tentatively say include based on how it reflects forum interest at a given time, or perhaps just give it a week or two trial run and see if it has any negative effect on discourse

 

[Trombonista]

I am sick of A&H threads being featured, so I voted for Option 3.

 

[Cato]

Nice to see I'm not the only one interested in lolcow content instead of The_Donald-tier political sperging.

 

[Null]

Nice to see I'm not the only one interested in lolcow content instead of The_Donald-tier political sperging.

Not our fault the UK is hell on Earth.

 

[Hiragana]

A&H isn't the focus of the site, but they've been dominating the Featured list recently. We don't need to know about every dead kangaroo or heroic dog that is posted about there.

 

[Judge Holden]

Not our fault the UK is hell on Earth.

*insert standard California based retort*

 

[Null]

A&H isn't the focus of the site, but they've been dominating the Featured list recently. We don't need to know about every dead kangaroo or heroic dog that is posted about there.

The issue is that the Amberlynn boards and A&H attract huge post volumes. If I included Al's board, it would be Al 100% of the time. Very infrequently do new, good lolcow threads pop up.

 

[MG 620]

I voted exclude.

The precious lolcows are the main feature of this forum. The news board should if possible be included (there will be more waffle yotube school shooters). More often than not an OT thread is "trending" because of good old shit posting.

 

[Cato]

It's piss easy to low-effort rating-farm shitpost and play to the crowd in an A&H thread without even reading the article in the OP, while posting in a lolcow thread and being received halfway warmly usually requires actually gathering some context. Hence, A&H threads will usually get more replies.

 

[Judge Holden]

Hmm, if A&H and subtopics are drowning original content out to that extent then I change my vote to exclude.

 

[ES 148]

I'd say autofeatured threads should be lolcow threads to keep things simple.

 

[Stock Photo James]

I'm confused by third poll option, you want to exclude all except news or exclude them all and news particularly? I assume first option, it makes sense, but the current wording is confusing.

 

[Null]

I'll switch off the off-topic boards and drop the post requirement to 20 to see how that works.

 

[Microlab]

ANH by nature has new and immediately active threads all the time. I think if they had autofeature, it should be if the thread has been active for like a week with 10+ pages, or something huge like that.

...but then at that point it would be so important, it would get featured anyway, so. No.

I would like if Get That Off The Internet had autofeaturing though, I miss too many of the funniest legal threats

 

[PsychoNerd054]

The board’s full of guys that try to grind for green ratings. Which is really saying something seeing how easy it is to do it on there. It’s safe to say we should put more emphasis on the lolcows and get back to pumping high quality content.

 

[Gym Leader Elesa]

I'm cool with anything but news. It's cool even when non-funny community threads are featured (or could be, like a whiskey or coffee thread or something), or lolcow threads or whatever. But news doesn't need the help. It seems to attract a lot of people already who only come for news.