Hall of Fame Changes
Submitted by jim on Fri, 04/04/2003 - 12:03
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I've added a "Lean and Hungry Challengers" column to go with the standard "All-Time Grandmaster World Champions" column in the Hall of Fame. It's still a rather lame quantitative ranking system, but I'll change that next.
Is there any way to have my user name, "stumpy" removed from the Listology "Hall Of Fame" list. I've always suspected that this was some kind of competition thing and I'd rather not be part of the game if it's all the same to you.
I guess I could change the SQL query to "select top 20 login from members where login <> 'stumpy' order by score desc". It'll be the first user-specific clause in the codebase, which doesn't make me very happy from a precedent perspective at the very least. The alternative would be to code an opt-out feature, but that would be much more time consuming for me for what I expect will be a little used feature. But hey, maybe I'm wrong! Anybody else want to opt out?
I'll do it, but in my defense the new headers are tongue-in-cheek. It's not a contest. My primary motivation for adding this feature originally was so that newcomers could easily find out who is contributing valuable content instead of having to hunt it down. My goal for adding "rookies" to the list was to mitigate the stagnation. Both goals are somewhat undermined by making the ranking quantitative rather than qualitative, but that's what I'm fixing next (hopefully tonight).
Anyway, probably more information than you wanted. I'll either add the stumpy-specific clause tonight, or code up an opt-out preference if anybody else is interested.
Or would you prefer to wait and see how the qualitative ranking pans out? Would it help if I changed the headers?
You need no defense Jim. This is your website. Who am I alone to suggest you do "anything" out the ordinary to make me more comfortable? Nobody has the right to tell you you're wrong in your ideas for improvement. I apologize if you thought I was critiquing your judgement and making anything but an personal request/inquiry.
For what it's worth... all your other changes are turning out great. Nevermind the "Hall Of Fame" request... (zip). Stay cool, man.
Doh! I'm clearly spending too much time in front of the computer. Sorry about the defensive tone, which is obvious now upon a re-read. I do think it's a good idea that I try to find language that makes it clear it's not a contest. I'll try to do that when I deploy the "qualitative" version soon (I'm still shooting for tonight, but Daylight Savings is stealing time from me). Anyway, thanks for the feedback!
Alrighty, I've deployed the revised "Hall of Fame" with some new less competitive language. I would have renamed the link to something more innocuous like "Parlor of Respect", but I couldn't come up with anything catchy enough. :-)
Details on the new version are here. The big thing is that quantity is greatly deemphasized, with endorsements and comments being much bigger factors.