Re: Don't Allow Author to Front Page a Node

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I must agree with ignatz, any easily abused feature (especially one with very public results) should have some kind of sanity check. Not allowing authors to FP would be a simple way (interface-wise, I have no idea of implemenation) to prevent major abuse.

Imagine the poor editors if several people started abusing the frontpage.

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Re: Re: Don't Allow Author to Front Page a Node by cjf (Parson) on May 06, 2002 at 04:21 UTC
Imagine the poor editors if several people started abusing the frontpage. This already happens now to an extent. One Monk frontpages a worthy node only to have it knocked off The Monastery Gates by a few careless frontpages by new Friars. Although this hasn't happened as much since Am I a power-mad Friar? was posted. Not allowing the author to single handily frontpage their own nodes would probably reduce such cases though.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Don't Allow Author to Front Page a Node
by cjf (Parson) on May 06, 2002 at 04:21 UTC

Imagine the poor editors if several people started abusing the frontpage.

This already happens now to an extent. One Monk frontpages a worthy node only to have it knocked off The Monastery Gates by a few careless frontpages by new Friars. Although this hasn't happened as much since Am I a power-mad Friar? was posted.

Not allowing the author to single handily frontpage their own nodes would probably reduce such cases though.

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