On 02/12/2018 15:06, Tim+ wrote:
Geo wrote:
On Sat, 01 Dec 2018 15:14:07 GMT, Ukjb
m wrote:
replying to Tabby, Ukjb wrote:
lots of stuff of no use to an 8 year old thread
followed by:-
"for full context, visit
https://www.homeownershub.com/uk-diy...us-662654-.htm
"
When I go to that horrible website the date of the last post in the
USENET thread is quite clearly visible in the top righthand corner :-
"posted on October 19, 2010, 9:19 pm"
Why do people have so much trouble seeing it?
I think HOH invites people to answer questions on the home page (and
probably other places too) where the date isnt at all obvious or even
present.
Yup, if you look at:
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/...HFrontPage.png
the "best rated discussions" are not show with a date at the top level.
I wonder where it derives the ratings from?
(and more to the point, could we game it, so as to make it promote posts
of our choice?)
Such is the brilliance of the HOH interface, replies are all sorted by date
of first post, not the most recent answer so respondents using HOH not only
reply to ancient posts, they probably never see any replies to their
messages either unless they start a new thread, which they seem loath to
do.
Yup that seems to fit the MO - its very rare to ever get a reply to a
new HoH poster on an old thread, whereas sometimes you get one when they
are posting on a new thread.
Chances are if it stops promoting the old thread after a new HoH poster
has added to it, they can then only find it by potentially looking back
through tens of thousands of pages to find the thread again!
HOH is about generating traffic to increase advertising revenue. Its not
designed to €śwork€ť.
I would not object to the former so much, if it actually worked!
--
Cheers,
John.
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