[WikiEN-l] Not so broken after all, perhaps

[Rory Stolzenberg]

On 12/31/06, Gurch <matthew.britton at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Luna wrote:
> > On 12/31/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> One thing which is not fixed: articles towards the end of the AfD day
> >> attract much less input than articles at the beginning of the day.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a good idea for fixing that?
> >>
> >
> >
> > Currently, new nominations are added to the bottom, which means people who
> > stroll by and don't bother to scroll down fifty pages will only see the
> > oldest nominations which are probably already filled with comments.
> >
> > What say we add new nominations to the top, instead? Might get them a bit
> > more attention.
> >
> > Unless that's already been tried, and I'm silly. :p
> >
> > -Luna
>
> That's a good idea - and when you think about it the logical way to do
> these things. Though I can guarantee if this change is adopted, the
> first day it goes into effect the nominations will all end up in a
> jumbled heap :)
>
> -Gurch
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But is that really so bad? Who cares if they're not in chronological
(or reverse chronological) order? If anything, that'll just make them
more likely to have an even spread of views over the times in which
they were added.