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• Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

  by tf23 (175)

  That's it exactly - journals aren't stories.
  
  Journals can have a discussion attached to them - just like a story can (it doesn't have to).
  
  I think the HOF only does stories. There used to be some code in it to scan for the most used slashboxes I thought (it's been a while since I perused the source).
  
  It would be cool if someone wrote an add-on or patch that would list the most popular journals. (However, I don't think the Journal plugin's schema has a hitcount field to track the hits to each journal).

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  • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:1)

    by Sandor (138) on Monday May 12 2003, @11:50AM (#6001) Journal

    yeah, I thought about that afterwards. I think it would be neat if hof included a top 10 journals and rankulate it the same way as the top stories by comment count. The one I linked to has had a huge response, much greater than I expected when I saw it go up. There were a few comment stuffers in there though and that certainly skews the number of comments.

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    • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

      by Krow (986)

      It crossed my mind that you could rank them within your sphere of friends. That might work.... so the game would really only be within the limit of who your friends are.

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      • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

        by tf23 (175)

        That would be a cool addition to the code.
        
        Would the journal schema need a hitcount though?
        
        

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        • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

          by Krow (986)

          Yep, which how does one do? What counts as a hit for a particular entry, or do you just do it for viewing all of the entries?

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          • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

            by Sandor (138)

            Couldn't it just be a tally of comment counts from replies to the particular journal entry?
            • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

              by Sandor (138)

              oops... I meant to add that for journal popularity it wouldn't need to be a hit count in the context of how many views the entry has but how many replies.
          • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

            by tf23 (175)

            I think it's got to be for a particular entry ie http://ask.slashcode.com/~laotan/journal/220 [slashcode.com]
            
            Where I get confused is what make a journal popular?
            
            The total number of comments?
            The number of comments w/ score > X
            the total number of times the journal's been viewed? (obviously, not tracking that at the moment)
            A combination of all of the above?
            
            And the interface isn't setup to easily get to a particular journal. If you hit
            http://ask.slashcode.com/~laotan/journal/ [slashcode.com] you get all of this journal - not a list of

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            • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

              by Sandor (138)

              I think for journals the # of views may not be as important as the number of comments attached.
              • Re:Journals aren't stories (Score:2)

                by tf23 (175)

                But that puts you right back where Krow was saying - the game. If you go by the total # of comments posted, then you're going to see people posting garbage just to increase that count.
                
                

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