My first step on arriving at the site is usually to nip over to visit Nodes to Consider. Yesterday and today I was up to date, which got me wondering if it would be possible to provide a link to NTC with a number of nodes that need attention (this value would be different for each user, of course).

If the number was zero, then I'd be able to save the server from bringing that page up, at the cost of having the server keep that count up to date.

Thoughts?

Update: Brother McDarren is quite right .. I'm talking about a count of the nodes that I haven't yet voted on.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re: Count for unconsidered nodes?
by McDarren (Abbot) on Apr 14, 2008 at 17:22 UTC
    Presumably you mean a "count of those considered nodes that you have not voted on"?

    I may be wrong (and most probably am), but I'm not sure if this is do-able. Not accurately, anyway. Bear in mind that "nada" is always an option for voting, and if you choose this option for any considered nodes, those nodes will continue to appear as if you hadn't voted on them.

    Nice idea++ though, and possibly worth considering nonetheless.

    Cheers,
    Darren :)

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      Perhaps revising "not voted on" to "has not voted nay or yea" would provide another perspective.

      TBMOK, the voting options still appear after a "nada" vote, which makes nodes upon which a user has voted distinguishable from those where the user checked "nada." In fact, my perhaps mistaken understanding of the "nada" option is that it exists chiefly to allow correction of an unintended up or down vote on the consideration (because the action for "nada" is a nulop, IIRC).

      If I'm correct (and that sometimes happens), then the request should be "possible." However, it would take quite a bit of dev work, but might drop the server load a bit.

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