Bring back the Latest/Greatest Combo with a time sequence

[slipslidingaway]

From another thread and I've copied and pasted this a few times in a thread that had 5 recs, but then it is dropped from the GP, it just gets stuck in a loop on the same forum.

Posted this a few times, this is how I used the GP and I would start a new post about it, but it would get rec'ed and unrec'ed and most likely never make it to the left side of the GP, where people from different forums might see it and comment.

Bring back the Latest/Greatest Combo with a time sequence.

:)

I disagree, the left side of the GP was very useful, not so much anymore. Posted this in another thread, although I realize that we all may not use this method, the latest/greatest combo was an efficient tool IMHO.

I do not use the right side of the GP as much as the left side...

which Was a combination of the latest/greatest threads from any forum (that you could rec) placed in chronological order of when they hit the GP.

You could come back the next day or hours later and easily scan through the left side for the latest/greatest of the past several hours and then pick up where you left off from your last visit. If time allowed then you could visit other forums, but this was a quick and efficient use of the left side of the GP...IMHO.

What happens now is a thread might get 5 recs and be placed on the left side of the GP, then someone gives it an unrec, so it drops off the left side, a couple hours later it gets another rec and gets placed back on the left side, BUT it remains where it was placed earlier when it first hit the GP left side.

The right side of the GP does not change nearly as fast so it was not as useful, the left side is pretty much destroyed with threads dropping on and off as people rec and unrec. I can see why they are not placed at the top again as this could happen several times a day, so that would not help the functionality either.

If you look at the current "latest page" there is only about one hour of posts, several of which I would have no interest in reading and I do not want to scan through 12 pages to catch up.

In contrast the left side of the greatest page has the last day or so of threads that at least 5 people thought should get a rec, much easier to look through and also to pick up at a later point as they remained in the same order instead of dropping on and off.

Hope that makes sense, it was the best way to see a combination of the latest/greatest from all forums.

[slipslidingaway]

1. Question - do we need to make the same post in every forum

in hopes of getting more feedback???

[slipslidingaway]

2. Can the posts that make it to the GP remain on the left side

and just change the right side of the GP???

[slipslidingaway]

3. "What do you say? $50 Billion for nukes? Yes or no?"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8522636&mesg_id=8522636

Why did a post that link in this thread, because the thread could not make it out of GDP for wider exposure. It is a poll about nukes and whether or not we should support spending 50 billion on new plants

IMO it is a good example of how the unrec feature can keep a post in the same forum for entire day when it might be of interest to others who do not look at that particular forum.

:(

[slipslidingaway]

4. kicking this back up for anyone who used the left side of the GP

and for threads that just get stuck in a loop of rec and unrecs.

[leftstreet]

5. Every time you kick your own post, God kills a kitten

[slipslidingaway]

6. Well I do not want that to happen :) ...others are making the same

observation about posts getting stuck in forums.

And some definitely should, but the example above about 50 billion for new nuke plants might be worthy of a wider audience.

:shrug: