Fanpost Update: Recs Go to the Next Level

What NBA blog on SBN has the highest REC threshhold?

AtTheHive was set at 1 REC until a few days ago when Sophia or someone else made half of the thread green, so they bumped it up to 3.

But I’m curious… does any other blog on here have a 7 REC level?

Although, as I glance as the sidebar I notice that everyone over there has more than 7 recs anyway. And I’ve noticed a lot of posts getting copious wreckage before these ones as well. I wonder….what if we did something similar to the flagging system for the rec system. You have to give a short explanation as to why you like the post. Not that in would have to be approved by anyone, but the extra step might discourage herd Rec-ing. I swear, sometimes I just can’t resist being the person who recs a post over the top.

not a stubborn site owner like some.

REC THIS POST!!!!!!!!!111

can we change rec to rex….in honor of Bayless?

I already commented about this yesterday. That you can set these numbers independent of each other makes fine-tuning easier.

A technical thing: Is there a mechanism on SBN that considers and maybe subtracts recs and flags? Probably not.
I really like the system in general. But I don’t think a post that has been flagged by more than say five people should be able to become recommended (regardless of why some people rec’ed it in the first place). I understand even fairly sophisticated systems can be gamed, but it takes away from the work people are putting into their "real posts" when figuratively speaking the snot sticks on top. And I suppose the community does the best job at recognizing most of the real snot ("Marbury") as opposed to hard/creative work, researched posts or planned jokes ("Baron Davis") when they see it.

P.S.: On other SBN blogs 3 recs already do the job – even fairly large ones. So the standard to turn a comment green or make a post stick on BE is already higher and the turnaround of posts faster – which can be both a good and a bad thing. Good because there is so much great new content every day. Bad because the time to discuss it is often fairly short, and you would likely miss it if you stay away form the blog more than a day or two. I have no recommendation what the optimal number for this community is, that is at your discretion to set the pace.

lol…I just jazzed the hive for the same thing……

SET THE STANDARD GENTALMEN….(and ladies)….

Recommended Fanposts should be title worthy!!! Rec it up to 20!!! woo woo!!

I’m all for the “unrec” option whenever you can unveil that one, too.

1. A bigger server cluster to handle gameday threads (not your responsibility)
2. Ability to edit posts (also not your responsibility

Any news from the SB Nation gnomes on whether or not they’ll be adding this functionality / scaling out production?

I know that’s why I don’t use them — what a pain that is…

Editability of posts is far and away the most needed improvement of SBNation as a whole.

May consider doing the same thing for Fanshots..

Dave, I have noticed a ton of Activity compared to other NBA blogs. Where does Blazers Edge Rank as far as posts, comments, traffic, etc.? or do you know?

Gotta love those people that put +1 or rec in a reply to a post and then don’t hit the freaking rec button. It ain’t that hard people.

Sorry…just a pet peeve of mine…but I don’t want to be THAT GUY who goes around policing people’s comments, so I’ll leave it at this.

You can rec my comment if you agree… :)

drive me crazy. Sometimes breaking news will show up in 3 fanshots in a row plus a fanpost or two. I know that sometimes they are posted within moments of each other and it’s impossible to know at the time, but look at yours after it is posted – if there is another one please delete yours. There is no reward for being first or second or the highest number of posts ever – this place isn’t about you, it’s about the Blazers.

Is it in the realm of possibilities to have more than 5 Featured Fanposts at a time?

Sometimes the good ones get moved quick. Too quick.

Just a thought.