can i just suggest something? i feel like as the site becomes more and more popular and more of a public forum, every post is getting more comments. as a result, we have a ton of posts becoming "popular posts", when they really arent any more popular than most.
can i suggest that we increase the number of comments necessary to get on the popular posts list? atleast to like...18 or so?
just a suggestion. admins can debate that.
Anonymous
11:08:37 AM
6 comments:
Just as a neutral bit of information, here are the percentages of posts per month that made popular status (16+ comments) recently:
May: 9.1% (351 total, 32 popular)**
April: 8.0% (287 total, 23 popular)
March: 5.4% (241 total, 13 popular)
** As of the posting time of this particular thread
I think OP has got a good idea. Too many not-so-great posts are becoming popular.
Some of the "problem" is also that people are posting multiple times on a thread, so it's 16+ comments, but not necessarily 16+ commenters.
Also, to address Anonymous1's comment, the not-so-great posts have been getting 20+ comments.
(Oddly enough, this is one of the things on our list of possible summer renovations.)
why does it matter?
and since when do we care whats considered popular and not popular?
Since always. That's half of what Tangst is about...
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