Making the stats more interesting

[Yellow]

Oh, I never thought you were being a mean dictator about it or anything! I just knew that, no matter how much fun I think it is to see everyone else's top favorites, it really does mean the top ten stay the top ten forever.

I would be willing to post links to the days of my favorites if people want to do that.

Well, that's part of why we added the last week/month/quarter/year options; those are far more likely to remain dynamic and interesting.

[C is for]

Boy howdy am I behind on these days.

I took some initiative and chose some days that contain my favorites. Kind of randomly. I'm not sure this is the kind of thing we want at all.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2005/jun/29/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2005/mar/22/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2004/sep/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2004/jun/26/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2004/jan/16/

Got a few more where those came from, I just decided it'd be fun to start at the oldest. Can retract if we want to start more recently.

Edit: My grammar is atrocious in this post! Curse you, internet, for Causing me not to Care about Comma splices anymore.

[Katya]

Boy howdy am I behind on these days.

If it helps, so am I.

I took some initiative and chose some days that contain my favorites. Kind of randomly. I'm not sure this is the kind of thing we want at all.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2005/jun/29/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2005/mar/22/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2004/sep/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2004/jun/26/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2004/jan/16/

These are great, but I actually think we should start a separate thread for them. (They're still part of the greater goal of making the stats more interesting, but I think the favorites thread would be a lot more fun to browse separately.) I've copied these over to a separate thread.

[Katya]

Oh, I never thought you were being a mean dictator about it or anything! I just knew that, no matter how much fun I think it is to see everyone else's top favorites, it really does mean the top ten stay the top ten forever.

I would be willing to post links to the days of my favorites if people want to do that.

Well, that's part of why we added the last week/month/quarter/year options; those are far more likely to remain dynamic and interesting.

Plus, I'm going to ask for the ability to view the top 10 within any time frame, at some point. (But I figured I'd rally the troops to actually rate stuff in the archives, first.)

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jun/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/may/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/mar/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/feb/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jan/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/dec/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/nov/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/sep/11/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/aug/11/

[Laser Jock]

Well, that's part of why we added the last week/month/quarter/year options; those are far more likely to remain dynamic and interesting.

Plus, I'm going to ask for the ability to view the top 10 within any time frame, at some point. (But I figured I'd rally the troops to actually rate stuff in the archives, first.)

I'm pretty sure that was in our plans, actually (at least going down to the month level); it was just easier to do the way it is now, first, and then go back later and change it if we still wanted to.

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jul/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jun/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/may/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/apr/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/mar/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/feb/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jan/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/dec/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/nov/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/oct/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/sep/12/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/aug/12/

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jul/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/may/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/apr/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/mar/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/feb/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jan/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/nov/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/oct/13/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/aug/13/

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jul/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jun/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/may/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/apr/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jan/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/dec/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/nov/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/oct/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/sep/14/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/aug/14/

Sorry I didn't post these, yesterday.

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jul/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jun/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/may/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/apr/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/mar/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/feb/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jan/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/dec/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/oct/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/sep/15/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/aug/15/


http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jul/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jun/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/apr/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/mar/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/feb/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2010/jan/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/dec/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/nov/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/oct/16/
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/archives/2009/sep/16/

[Katya]

*sigh*

OK, even I'm not keeping up with these, any more.

[Yellow]

Another option, if you're just looking to get a scattered distribution of "likes" throughout the archives, is to just use the "I'm Board" link a few times and rate each of those. It's not going to give you as much as rating everything for a month, but it would be more than nothing, anyway.

[Katya]

Another option, if you're just looking to get a scattered distribution of "likes" throughout the archives, is to just use the "I'm Board" link a few times and rate each of those. It's not going to give you as much as rating everything for a month, but it would be more than nothing, anyway.

That's a good idea. For me, though, it's easier to rate things if I have other questions and answers to compare them to. (Of course, I could always open two tabs and click "I'm Board" on both of them.)

[C is for]

Every once in a while I think about how we had such ambitions for this thread.

[bobtheenchantedone]

I don't even remember this thread...