mfh's Journal: Getting to the Front Page

The new article stubs on the front page really work for me, but I'd like to see each new story remain a stub until enough 5-Insightful/Interesting/Informative comments become visible. In other words; everything starts sectional and earns the right to be on the front page based on quality -- not quantity (as others have suggested).

We should also have a new mod category: "Flag".

The Flag mod will indicate that an admin should read the comment because it's important. Typos, spelling, dupe notices etc can all fall under this category, and editors could re-thread the site to see these types of comments first. Reward moderators who correctly flag comments as a system notice with extra mod points. Keep the Flag comments collapsed for regular users, so the meat and potatoes comments all frequent higher.

Moo

[Chacham]

I want to see http://aychteeteepeecolonslashslashdotdotcom.com/ [aychteetee...dotcom.com] use slashdot as its queue, and then only post the creme de le creme.

Then, for comments, take all comments and mark them themselves, and put them on a curve.

I'd pay for that service...

Open Door?

[mfh]

Editors could prevent idiotic/spam, and let users comment on stories as they go. The stories with the highest comment scores get pushed to the front page, because users care about them. The reason I've suggested the Flag moderation is that we could leave that out of the equation for front page, plus it's not necessarily on topic to be worth a threshold increase -- just a simple way to message admins about dupes or 404 URIs or typos.

Re:Open Door?

[Chacham]

I still like my idea. :)

Re:Open Door?

[mfh]

ME too. That way we'd at least get to see all the articles as they come in!

Would prolly be a subscriber feature!

Re:Open Door?

[Chacham]

Heh.

Wouldn't work.

[Kethinov]

This is not K5.

Re:Wouldn't work.

[mfh]

K5 uses voting stories up as its method. My suggestion is that we let editors post everything to section, and I think that's systematically much different.