ioi said:
Well exactly, unless people check the "breaking news" section which they are not - so you agree a system of displaying these by rotation on the front page would work? The way Digg deals with news which I like works in two ways - the "popular" news is ordered by date, newest first. So newly popular stories join the top while older stories drop off the bottom - this ensures, in theory that new news is always at the top. In order to become popular you need to fulfil certain criteria - a number of votes - at which point you join the popular list. Until then you are just on a general list of submitted news. I think this is necessary to sort the good news from bad - or a similar system. We could have moderated news where a mod has to ok it and it becomes popular that way or is just deleted, but I think that is too heavy handed an approach.... |
I don't really have an opinion on how the algorithm for popular news should work. As I said, I just want to see the latest news on the main page in some form. I just don't like digging down to the breaking news section of the website to view the latest news.
As for the issue of sorting through good news and bad news, I agree that this is difficult without implementing some sort of news moderation. The only thing that really bugged me with regard to bad news in the past was people posting information as news and not providing a link to the source of the information. I think it should be required to provide a link to the source of the information in a news item.
