From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2002-08-15T16:55:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Weekly News

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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:43, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:32:55AM +0900,  JamesBritt wrote:
> > Please don't take this as a knock of the efforts required to produce the
> > Ruby weekly news, but I was curious about the criteria for inclusion.
>
> Wouldn't it be cool if this could be somehow automated? Some ideas:
>  * automatic thread scoring
>      --> activity (length) => 	score += x
>          matz's post =>  	score += 3*x     :-)
> 	 whatever
>  * allow the active readers of the mailing list to vote somewhere
>
> A script could generate a candidate sorting of the threads and the human
> supervisor would correct it if there's something blatantly wrong...
>
> Just dreaming :)

I used to automate this by thread activity. I'd score threads based on the 
number of responses. I think i had the threshhold set to something like 15. 
In a weeks worth of traffic it still requires a lot of manual going through 
and picking them out. Plus there is a lot of threads that exceed that many 
posts that I don't think really belong in the RWN such as simple howto and 
such. 

I wonder how voting would work - would people actually be bothered to use it? 
Interesting idea Mauricio.

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Signed,
Holden Glova
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