I understand how frustrating it is. I am currently pondering going back to a time-based system where you have to be a member for a certain number of days to post (similar to what we had on the old site.) I really hate doing that though, it is totally demotivating for new members who really want to get into contributing right away. I also know some of the people on the Mollom team, and I may start reaching out to them to see if I can't get some information about what we can do to help. Mollom analyzes literally hundreds of thousands of postings daily. Its hard for me to believe that another filtering system will approach things better.
I am looking into if this is possible, but it is not a functionality that comes out of the box with the software we are using. I am also concerned about people using it to remove comments they disagree with, or using this functionality to cause other kinds of trouble. Its just something I want to consider carefully.
Oh! That was an oversight on my part. Those features are back, I didn't realize I needed to explicitly turn them back on when I turned search back on. Thanks for pointing it out.
The big problem is the service I am using to index content, the auto-match thing actually adds very little overhead. I can move to a simpler indexing service, however it would result in an immense reduction in functionality. The ability to filter searches by user, by type, by tag, and to see related content, all come from this service and would go away without it. These are pretty compelling features and I would really like to find a way to keep the existing search stable. It's just a matter of finding a clear day or two to make it happen.
Everyone will be happy to know I've restored search. I have not gotten around to improving its performance and in the meantime people have been clamoring for it to be back. Better to reboot the server every couple weeks I guess. Thanks for your patience everyone!
I've talked to a lot of people about Listology over the years and one decision Jim made early on that works (which I never would have done) is that the lists are completely unstructured. This is one reason our lists are so eclecti - they can be lists with mini-reviews, or just a bunch of text, ordered, unordered, whatever. Personally I would have designed the lists in a much more structured way, so I could aggregate and enumerate them more easily, because I'm a data nerd. However, this would have killed the freedom that has spawned the community and especially the discussion around many lists.
Ultimately all communities grow around their strengths and their ability to bring like-minded people together, and god knows the internet has proven there's plenty of room for everyone. Best of luck to them!
On this list there is one stone-cold masterpiece and that is On Fire by Galaxie 500. Probably one of my 10 or 20 favorite albums of all time. Damaged and the s/t Bad Brains album are pretty excellent as well.
What I meant was more like what I see right now. The top most viewed is Best Comedy Movies (Rank Ordered) as it will always be. There's one '1001 Books To Read Before You Die' list which for some reason gets 100x more traffic than any of the others. Then there's a group of about 20 lists which cycle around the next spots. Early in the day something may rise up briefly, but over time this pattern of most viewed will always be true (except on occasion when something starts getting particularly good links for a day or two.)
Beyond the top 50 or so its scattered all over the place.
Anyways I'm glad to build this if you want, I could to Most Viewed Of All Time and Most Viewed Today. I'll add it to the list.
It wouldn't be hard, however you can look through the listing on the front page and see the same thing. The most viewed per day exactly mirrors the most viewed of all time. There are about 100 lists with very good Google rank and they always rank at the top.
You will still get ads, you just won't get the one above lists titles. I might change this though. The fact is most of the site revenue comes from non-logged-in users anyways.
The good news is that I've determined that the site search software was in fact what has been dragging my server down, I'm sure all the regular users have noticed a marked improvement in site response recently. The bad news is I don't really have a better solution right now. Hopefully more news soon.
It is pretty cool that they added streaming for all the songs, i don't get exposed to a lot of dance or hip hop in general so its nice to fill some gaps in those areas. I am really digging "Grindin'" by Clipse.
I understand how frustrating it is. I am currently pondering going back to a time-based system where you have to be a member for a certain number of days to post (similar to what we had on the old site.) I really hate doing that though, it is totally demotivating for new members who really want to get into contributing right away. I also know some of the people on the Mollom team, and I may start reaching out to them to see if I can't get some information about what we can do to help. Mollom analyzes literally hundreds of thousands of postings daily. Its hard for me to believe that another filtering system will approach things better.
I am looking into if this is possible, but it is not a functionality that comes out of the box with the software we are using. I am also concerned about people using it to remove comments they disagree with, or using this functionality to cause other kinds of trouble. Its just something I want to consider carefully.
Oh! That was an oversight on my part. Those features are back, I didn't realize I needed to explicitly turn them back on when I turned search back on. Thanks for pointing it out.
The big problem is the service I am using to index content, the auto-match thing actually adds very little overhead. I can move to a simpler indexing service, however it would result in an immense reduction in functionality. The ability to filter searches by user, by type, by tag, and to see related content, all come from this service and would go away without it. These are pretty compelling features and I would really like to find a way to keep the existing search stable. It's just a matter of finding a clear day or two to make it happen.
Everyone will be happy to know I've restored search. I have not gotten around to improving its performance and in the meantime people have been clamoring for it to be back. Better to reboot the server every couple weeks I guess. Thanks for your patience everyone!
I've talked to a lot of people about Listology over the years and one decision Jim made early on that works (which I never would have done) is that the lists are completely unstructured. This is one reason our lists are so eclecti - they can be lists with mini-reviews, or just a bunch of text, ordered, unordered, whatever. Personally I would have designed the lists in a much more structured way, so I could aggregate and enumerate them more easily, because I'm a data nerd. However, this would have killed the freedom that has spawned the community and especially the discussion around many lists.
Ultimately all communities grow around their strengths and their ability to bring like-minded people together, and god knows the internet has proven there's plenty of room for everyone. Best of luck to them!
That is amazing! Thanks for being such a great contributor!
On this list there is one stone-cold masterpiece and that is On Fire by Galaxie 500. Probably one of my 10 or 20 favorite albums of all time. Damaged and the s/t Bad Brains album are pretty excellent as well.
What I meant was more like what I see right now. The top most viewed is Best Comedy Movies (Rank Ordered) as it will always be. There's one '1001 Books To Read Before You Die' list which for some reason gets 100x more traffic than any of the others. Then there's a group of about 20 lists which cycle around the next spots. Early in the day something may rise up briefly, but over time this pattern of most viewed will always be true (except on occasion when something starts getting particularly good links for a day or two.)
Beyond the top 50 or so its scattered all over the place.
Anyways I'm glad to build this if you want, I could to Most Viewed Of All Time and Most Viewed Today. I'll add it to the list.
It wouldn't be hard, however you can look through the listing on the front page and see the same thing. The most viewed per day exactly mirrors the most viewed of all time. There are about 100 lists with very good Google rank and they always rank at the top.
You will still get ads, you just won't get the one above lists titles. I might change this though. The fact is most of the site revenue comes from non-logged-in users anyways.
The good news is that I've determined that the site search software was in fact what has been dragging my server down, I'm sure all the regular users have noticed a marked improvement in site response recently. The bad news is I don't really have a better solution right now. Hopefully more news soon.
The podcast version of the show is now up for download or streaming at
http://www.cpbn.org/program/colin-mcenroe-show/episode/cms-lure-list
I come in about halfway through. Thanks to WNPR for having me!
It is pretty cool that they added streaming for all the songs, i don't get exposed to a lot of dance or hip hop in general so its nice to fill some gaps in those areas. I am really digging "Grindin'" by Clipse.
The Academy has also famously denied Rob Schneider membership in the past
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/349994-rob-schneider-denied-academy-...