Archive for the 'Story Section' Category

We have improved the story section

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Now the story section will be able to choose and sort the preferred at runtime. Depending on the community responses it will sort itself and this process will allow us to get interesting topics on the home page.

This is only the first phase of the algorithm and with time we will improve it further with time. With more and more people using it we can get better statistics to analyze the working of algo. This algo involves,

  1. Post time.
  2. Total comments.
  3. Votes (both “yes” and “no”). We have allowed guests to vote as well with an advanced spam checking filter.
  4. Total views (Ajax based highly efficient algo).
  5. Click response and time spent on the story section. (very effective algo, works in the path of major search engines)
  6. Submitter’s history with the story submission.
  7. Tagging response.

This is just a beginning and with time the algo will evolve. I need to make the pager work for the story section. I am planning to use Pear:Pager class for it. Please let me know your feedback on the story section.

Introducing story section

Friday, April 7th, 2006

I am glab to introduce the story section. This is to reach other useful stories (news/blogs/articles or any other information) available across World Wide Web.

What is it all about?
This is a section where anyone can submit a story for the community. Once you submit the story it will be available to the community, there is no moderation or selection process, all stories are laid in front of the community. Spammers will face a tough time to get votes and come to the visible area. This is a community managed news section.
Story Section

As our other section this too is simple to use. Each story can be discussed and debated by clicking on the “Replies”. We have a smart voting section allowing even the guest to post by keeping a backend to clear the possible spam votes.

Why to submit to the story section?
There are many reasons, few are:-

  • Helping community by sharing useful information.
  • If you are the owner of the story you can get targeted readers by submitting the story.

This is still in beta stage, so you can expect improvement every single day. We are using AJAX to make the system faster.