Mfw clopfics get the featured bar · 8:24am Oct 13th, 2012
Not that I hate the bronies who write them. There are a few well written ones out there. It's just...
Come on guys.
Really now.
... With Rumble?
He who overcomes shall inherit all things.
Not that I hate the bronies who write them. There are a few well written ones out there. It's just...
Come on guys.
Really now.
... With Rumble?
I have a twofold solution to this problem.
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Welcome to da Interwebz.
What is Mfw?
Anyway. The problem is that this is a feature, not a bug. Knighty has decided the feature box should show popular crap, instead of good stuff. He already has a perfectly good algorithm for selecting highly-rated stories, which is used when you go to Browse->Top Rated, and he deliberately doesn't use it for the feature box, which is based instead on popularity. Because it's popularity of brand-new stories, this means that the only thing the feature box measures is how curious people were about the story based on its picture, title, and description. By the time they've read it, and know whether they like it, they've already contributed a view. They can down-vote it, but that doesn't affect the feature box. Yesterday there were 2 stories in there that ranked in the bottom half of all stories on the site by rating, but had a lot of views.
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mfw= My face when.
419758 But if I can't see it, I have nothing to gripe about at two in the morning!