On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]>wrote:
> Sherif (aka GoogleGuy): > > Could you please reimplement the posts in the order they were created? > I like the upvote functionality but that doesn't mean that good posts > should go to the top: rather, we should monitor bad posts and delete > them when appropriate. > I have thought long and hard about how to best organize user contributed notes sections in the documentation and from past conversation, what's evident is that the old system simply proved less and less fruitful over time. The challenge is that we constant have notes submitted with the premise that the most recent note will always sit at the top of the page. However, not all recent notes are more valuable than older notes. In fact, when a page is neglected for long enough what we sometimes end up with are dozens of notes that aren't useful at all that clutter the page and cause other (more useful) notes to wash out in the noise where very few users will bother to dig. The idea is to have the notes autonomously sorted in a way that will keep the most useful notes around and eventually drop notes that aren't proving popular enough. This will take time and as such I am strongly opposed to reverting to the old system for the sake not reluctance. I have already considered providing the user with an option to sort notes on the page, but unfortunately our code is very old and this feature is not as simple to implement as it sounds. It will take some time to rethink the approach. I appreciate your input on the matter and I want to create improvements that move us forwards and not take us 10 steps back.
