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Braavos36402 Posts
Check out the featured blog section in the left sidebar, or click here for the full list.
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CBlast
Mexico7 Posts
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pred470r
Bulgaria3265 Posts
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Cobbbler
United States60 Posts
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bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
 I really love this change as a way to highlight the better blogs. Awesome | ||
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RogerX
New Zealand3180 Posts
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surfinbird1
Germany999 Posts
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s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
Now we just need to fix the part below called "Replays" and include sc2. | ||
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jmbthirteen
United States10734 Posts
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deslice
Austria37 Posts
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slam
United States923 Posts
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Mirrikh
Romania105 Posts
Is there a search feature in case you want to locate a certain player's blog ? | ||
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NET
United States703 Posts
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UltimateHurl
Ireland591 Posts
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CyDe
United States1010 Posts
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Hondelul
1999 Posts
I can´t move the section blocks, the cross appears when hovering over a block but I can´t click it or it is like a normal cursor and it marks the text. Didn´t want to make a new thread in feedback about it, perhaps somebody can tell me if I do something wrong or a small error accured. | ||
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Atom Cannister
Germany380 Posts
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LightTemplar
Ireland481 Posts
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On April 17 2012 19:15 UltimateHurl wrote: Nice addition, but basing it on high star ratings seems flawed. Currently I've seen few ratings for the views/comments I have in blogs, which are a much better indicator of quality.It creates an unfavourable post-to-reward ratio too, for example If someone makes their first blog and gets a single 5 star rating that's a 5 star average over all their work, currently a 5 star rating would be a +0.046 in my average (with favourable rounding). Also of course since this works on average across blogs it's not featured blogs but featured users who make blogs, which I suppose is what you are going for highlight notable forum personalities. It is a good idea, just from the perspective of someone who works with ratings the way you are featuring things seems sub-optimal. To the best of my understand only the initial set of featured blogs were picked based off of ratings. Future additions won't necessarily be based off of rating. | ||
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ReturnStroke
United States801 Posts
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oneill12
Romania1222 Posts
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
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UltimateHurl
Ireland591 Posts
On April 17 2012 19:36 Plexa wrote: To the best of my understand only the initial set of featured blogs were picked based off of ratings. Future additions won't necessarily be based off of rating. Clicking 'Featured Blogs' takes you to the list, which is based on ratings, while the sidebar lists recent blogs of high-rated users. I'll be favouring the curated Spotlight, as long as it still covers blogs, to provide the more interesting recent blogs. Edit: that sounds more negative than it should, rather I'm more interested in interesting blogs of the moment than featured users. | ||
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R1CH
Netherlands10342 Posts
On April 17 2012 19:21 Hondelul wrote: Nothing to do with the blogs direct but I just noticed a problem when I tried to customize my sidebar: I can´t move the section blocks, the cross appears when hovering over a block but I can´t click it or it is like a normal cursor and it marks the text. Didn´t want to make a new thread in feedback about it, perhaps somebody can tell me if I do something wrong or a small error accured. Turn off adblock. | ||
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Hondelul
1999 Posts
Thanks. Worked ofc. | ||
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On April 17 2012 19:58 UltimateHurl wrote: Clicking 'Featured Blogs' takes you to the list, which is based on ratings, while the sidebar lists recent blogs of high-rated users. I'll be favouring the curated Spotlight, as long as it still covers blogs, to provide the more interesting recent blogs. The Featured Blogs list does indeed take you to a list, which is sorted by ratings rather than defined by ratings. Blogs are manually added to the featured blogs list and the initial set of blogs were based on the top rated blogs at the time (and were then processed). | ||
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deathly rat
United Kingdom911 Posts
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Vindicare605
United States16125 Posts
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UltimateHurl
Ireland591 Posts
On April 17 2012 20:05 Plexa wrote: The Featured Blogs list does indeed take you to a list, which is sorted by ratings rather than defined by ratings. Blogs are manually added to the featured blogs list and the initial set of blogs were based on the top rated blogs at the time (and were then processed). I look forward to seeing improvements, in its current state sorting by ratings will effectively define blogs by rating, people rarely look at the second page of results. As I say implicit feedback such as views and comments is usually more telling of interest, and should be considered when you make changes | ||
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Ciryandor
United States3735 Posts
On April 17 2012 20:08 deathly rat wrote: I used to play another game that had a community forum like TL. They had a special section for the old boys club in which the rest of us couldn't post. I recommend this for TL, because then you won't have to put up with the rest of us ordinary people, and also we will be free from being rated/judged/overly moderated. It's called the Broodwar section. On a more serious note, I'd suggest you post this on Website Feedback if you so wish.  . | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
I really dislike it, I think it's an unecessary step in the "upvote direction". Plus it starts to make the left sidebar way too long (and I have a lot of hidden sections). That being said, I can work around this which is pretty nice. Myself from the Website Fedback now closed thread. Just wanted to ask if it'd be possible to customize blogs in the "customize sidebar" options ? | ||
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Otolia
France5805 Posts
On April 17 2012 20:36 Ciryandor wrote: It's called the Broodwar section. On a more serious note, I'd suggest you post this on Website Feedback if you so wish. .Why do you say on a more serious note ? This is a perfect description of the BW forums. | ||
BLinD-RawR
ALLEYCAT BLUES51128 Posts
my thoughts because the other earlier topic got closed. | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
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Zorkmid
4410 Posts
So when I click on the big section header that says: "Blogs" will I still be seeing all the blogs in order of last post? | ||
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
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Fatze
Germany1342 Posts
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
Actually nvm, people only read blogs to see girl blogs. | ||
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Primadog
United States4411 Posts
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Archas
United States6531 Posts
What criteria do you use when judging the de-featuring of a given blogger? | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9110 Posts
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Chill
Calgary26003 Posts
On April 17 2012 21:44 Roffles wrote: Actually on second thought, I'm not sure how I feel about featured blogs. May run into the issue of the rest of the blogs not being read because people just want to read "Featured" blogs. Actually nvm, people only read blogs to see girl blogs. Replace Featured Blogs with Girl Blogs imo: Blogs < Girl Blogs < Featured Girl Blogs | ||
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potatoedoughnut
United States334 Posts
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Jongl0
631 Posts
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[F_]aths
Germany3947 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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Praetorial
United States4241 Posts
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Mandini
United States1717 Posts
On April 18 2012 01:06 Chill wrote: Replace Featured Blogs with Girl Blogs imo: Blogs < Girl Blogs < Featured Girl Blogs I approve of this, sometimes its such a chore to dig through all of the ladder and haji blogs to find what people really read the blog section for. | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
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marttorn
Norway5211 Posts
On April 18 2012 01:58 Praetorial wrote: Hey, can we feature Azera's blogs? They are generally very well thought out and high quality. I'd tend to agree. He's a smart kid. But on the actual system though, I think i'd like it if the Blogs that are listed in the featured section, are also not listed in the normal section. Like NonY's most recent blog, it's in the featured and the non-featured section, which seems unnecessary, as it could potentially also take away space from normal blogs that would want to be "promoted" by being listed in the most recent section. Maybe this concern has already been answered and I just missed something :o | ||
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Kenpachi
United States9908 Posts
I almost made a blog about this | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
On April 18 2012 03:15 Mandini wrote: I approve of this, sometimes its such a chore to dig through all of the ladder and haji blogs to find what people really read the blog section for. Wait what, haji blogs are legitimately pretty good. It takes a few to get used to his writing style (otherwise it just reads as random verbiage), but they are very different from the rest and well-worth the read. Need to step up my game and crank out more blogs! | ||
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Nazeron
Canada1046 Posts
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snively
United States1159 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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fishuu
United States369 Posts
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RBKeys
Canada196 Posts
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fusefuse
Estonia4644 Posts
On April 18 2012 05:44 Kenpachi wrote: really lame. i dislike this cause i cant remove the featured blogs from the sidebar. Its redundant to have the blogs reappear in the normal blog section of the sidebar. I almost made a blog about this Ah yes Even though I don't oppose the idea myself, i too found it redundant, to have the featured blogs also appear in the 'unranked' blog section Like with R1CH's how to capture meth in XSplit blog :F (hehe word cutoff) Also why not introduce yet another element to the equation, the equation of fun - blog ladder! Automatically feature top 100 blogs by rankings : D! Should your blog score go down, blam, back to the regular ladder with ye! | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
As far as I am concerned, I only ever use the left sidebar to navigate the site, so as much as possible should be put there . | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
On April 18 2012 21:02 fusefuse wrote: Ah yes Even though I don't oppose the idea myself, i too found it redundant, to have the featured blogs also appear in the 'unranked' blog section Like with R1CH's how to capture meth in XSplit blog :F (hehe word cutoff) Also why not introduce yet another element to the equation, the equation of fun - blog ladder! Automatically feature top 100 blogs by rankings : D! Should your blog score go down, blam, back to the regular ladder with ye! I'm sure it wouldn't be insanely huge problem, but what would stop someone trying to make top 100 from going through the top 100 bloggers and 1-starring all their posts to rank them down? I agree it's redundant to have featured blogs also appear in the regular blogs section though. | ||
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fusefuse
Estonia4644 Posts
On April 19 2012 01:08 Grobyc wrote: I'm sure it wouldn't be insanely huge problem, but what would stop someone trying to make top 100 from going through the top 100 bloggers and 1-starring all their posts to rank them down? I agree it's redundant to have featured blogs also appear in the regular blogs section though. While my post was written mostly tongue-in-cheek (we're not planning to take the blog ladder by storm with SirJolt at all, pssh), you raise a valid point Most blogs in the top100 though, apart from a select few, have enough ratings to not be phased or influenced at all by random 1-voters (who are the bane of every system with hit&run voting capabilities). Then again, that could possibly weed out those one-hit bloggers (which necessarily isn't a problem) and their low amount of entries/reputation/fanbase. Hmm Food for thought for the inception of the TL Grandmaster Blog League though | ||
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[KGS]Slacker
Denmark82 Posts
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DreamChaser
1649 Posts
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evaunit01
United States512 Posts
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AirbladeOrange
United States2574 Posts
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10380 Posts
On April 17 2012 19:36 Plexa wrote: To the best of my understand only the initial set of featured blogs were picked based off of ratings. Future additions won't necessarily be based off of rating. Oh, good :D Cus sometimes you may make a blog entry where it's just a question like some of mine, and I wouldn't want that to now weigh down my rating forever. | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
On April 17 2012 19:15 UltimateHurl wrote: Nice addition, but basing it on high star ratings seems flawed. Currently I've seen few ratings for the views/comments I have in blogs, which are a much better indicator of quality.It creates an unfavourable post-to-reward ratio too, for example If someone makes their first blog and gets a single 5 star rating that's a 5 star average over all their work, currently a 5 star rating would be a +0.046 in my average (with favourable rounding). Also of course since this works on average across blogs it's not featured blogs but featured users who make blogs, which I suppose is what you are going for highlight notable forum personalities. It is a good idea, just from the perspective of someone who works with ratings the way you are featuring things seems sub-optimal. Yeah, this is true. I literally have seen someone go through and mark all my blogs a 1, not sure why. Maybe they actually hated them, but it just seemed shiesty. I am not that concerned, but I think that the star ratings are far too open to trolls. =) Overall, I like the section and think it is a great idea. Thanks guys! | ||
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3FFA
United States3931 Posts
On April 18 2012 01:06 Chill wrote: Replace Featured Blogs with Girl Blogs imo: Blogs < Girl Blogs < Featured Girl Blogs Rofl so true. Then you add in featured charcoal drawings of girls... | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
However, reading through the featured ones right now, I have the feeling that some ended up there because the blogger is a big name rather than the blog actually being very good. What I liked with the front page feature is that a first poster has as big of a chance to get there as a 15k posts veteran, as long as the content is the same. Maybe it's just at startup that it is like this. Just hoping the featured blogs wont be an internal club for the veterans only. | ||
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ImDrizzt
Norway427 Posts
*sob* | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
On April 19 2012 13:32 TheAmazombie wrote: Yeah, this is true. I literally have seen someone go through and mark all my blogs a 1, not sure why. Maybe they actually hated them, but it just seemed shiesty. I am not that concerned, but I think that the star ratings are far too open to trolls. =) Overall, I like the section and think it is a great idea. Thanks guys! i got into an argument with someone, and immediately after my blog went from 5 (not many people vote) to like 2. lol. its so vindictive and stupid. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On April 21 2012 02:22 dAPhREAk wrote: i got into an argument with someone, and immediately after my blog went from 5 (not many people vote) to like 2. lol. its so vindictive and stupid. I've always thought they should have it so either the general reader or the blogger can see who rated the post and what rating they gave. | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
On April 21 2012 04:12 Roe wrote: I've always thought they should have it so either the general reader or the blogger can see who rated the post and what rating they gave. i'd ban everyone that gives me one star. lol. ;-) | ||
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ReachTheSky
United States3294 Posts
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