in reply to 'Best Nodes' on a {dailyweekly...} basis?

Best Nodes does a lot of what's being asked. The one whinge I have is that the cream of the crop is pretty short. I wouldn't mind it if the lists were longer, especially for best of all time. I gape in awe at Camel Code, take to heart the messages in Code Smarter and so forth, but a lot that's of value doesn't make it onto that list, and some older posts of comparable quality that don't get voted on any more won't be on that list (rep inflation). I guess what I'm saying is that I would find it useful to expand the capacities of Best Nodes to a certain degree.

Other than that, there's the issue of displaying reps on nodes the poster has not voted on; well that seems pretty minor, and might not be worth the computational cost of implementing it.

Underlying all this is that, as useful as changes like these would be, I'm not *so* attached to them that they should keep Fearless Leader from his life =)

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

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(kudra: best by percent over norm) Re(2): 'Best Nodes' on a {dailyweekly...} basis?
by kudra (Vicar) on Mar 24, 2001 at 14:26 UTC
    I also find myself missing some of those great old nodes. To me there's something more noteworthy about a node which gets 50 votes when the norm is 2 than one which gets 500 votes when the norm is 490.

    One way to deal with rep inflation might be to order best nodes of all time based upon the percent by which they outperform their daily norm rather than the total number of votes the post gets. This could either replace the existing best nodes of all time or be another way of counting, much like Saints in Our Book has two versions: the old (which doesn't appear to be updated) number of writeups measurement; and the new, amount of exp measurement.

      A "Great Nodes Through History" view would be an excellent addition to the historical record, and would doubtless surface some gems.

      I wonder, though, if such a page is best generated automatically, or by nominations and voting.