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Post of the Day (again)

  • 19-01-2015 12:32pm
    #1
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,720 ✭✭✭✭


    I know it's come up before, but what are the parameters for choosing POTD? M.T. Cranium has POTD today, yet yesterday, a post was made in After Hours which garnered far more thanks. And it had more thanks by yesterday lunchtime than today's POTD has.
    Post edited by Shield on


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  • #2
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    It's been over a year since POTD was given to a post in After Hours: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057122270

    I think AH was removed from the algorithm in case somebody posted something "offensive" and Boards.ie were seen to be "endorsing" it with the thanks system.


  • #3
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    They just didn't want me winning it all the time.


  • #4
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    An File wrote: »
    It's been over a year since POTD was given to a post in After Hours: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057122270

    I think AH was removed from the algorithm in case somebody posted something "offensive" and Boards.ie were seen to be "endorsing" it with the thanks system.

    I really don't get how that was classed as offensive, was that the last AH post to win POTD?


  • #5
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,720 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Surely though it can have to opposite effect of great posts being denied POTD. Not saying the post I linked in the OP was a great post, but mainly thinking about maybe some of the Santa Strike Force posts for big donations or where the money will be going to etc.


  • #6
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    I really don't get how that was classed as offensive, was that the last AH post to win POTD?

    That was the last one thanked by the Boards.ie account. There were 61 other After Hours posts thanked in the 4 months prior to that one.


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  • #7
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    We don't give it to posts in AH - it doesn't need the popularity boost and it's there primarily to help drive traffic to other forums.


  • #8
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Does the You Laugh You Lose series of threads really need the traffic boost too?


  • #9
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    Probably not, might look at re-jigging the algorithm :)


  • #10
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    An File wrote: »
    That was the last one thanked by the Boards.ie account. There were 61 other After Hours posts thanked in the 4 months prior to that one.

    Would it not be better to just stop the boards.ie account from thanking posts?


  • #11
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,971 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Would it not be better to just stop the boards.ie account from thanking posts?

    It's the most simple way of automatically tracking and tagging POTD, as far as I understand it.


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  • #12
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,753 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    An File wrote: »
    It's the most simple way of automatically tracking and tagging POTD, as far as I understand it.

    Ah cool, thanks.


  • #13
    Dav
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,840 ✭✭✭Dav


    Yea, it's the way the code works. Algorithm finds post, makes the Boards.ie account thank said post and then when the menu rebuilds itself every night, it looks for the most recently thanked post by the Boards.ie account and tags it as the POTD (similarly with Thread of the day).


  • #14
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,720 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Dav wrote: »
    We don't give it to posts in AH - it doesn't need the popularity boost and it's there primarily to help drive traffic to other forums.

    Ah, that's fair enough. I knew the Thread of the Day was pretty much just random, but thought POTD was purely just the most thanked post (with the exception of forums like Personal Issues for obvious reasons).


  • #15
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Dav wrote: »
    Probably not, might look at re-jigging the algorithm :)

    Post video of said jig, with relevant audio, please.


  • #16
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Gordon wrote: »
    Post video of said jig, with relevant audio, please.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br0mDomKW-Q


  • #17
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    Dav wrote: »
    We don't give it to posts in AH - it doesn't need the popularity boost..

    Edit: tl;dr

    After Hours should never have been removed from the POTD algorithm. The reasoning behind it is baloney.

    POTD was not set up to drive traffic to parts of Boards that needed a popularity boost, for the simple reason that the chances of a post ever getting most thanks of a day in a not very well frequented forum, would be nigh on impossible: for. that. reason.

    Quit (what I see as being) the never ending sneering at AH. It's why you're here. Without it.. green fields.


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