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#52 extend customization of homepage
Rather than a simple show/no-show option on
authors/topics/sections to determine what you see
on the home page, I'd like to be able to assign a +/-
1.
Stories start at 0. The user's personal preferences
get applied, and then a +1 if it is designated a
"front page" story by an editor. If this ends up
positive, the user actually sees it on the front page.
For example, a JonKatz story might have your
personal -1, and the +1 for "front page" yields a 0 -
you don't see it. But say you really like stories in
the BSD section (+1), and Jon happens to be writing
about BSD. Then you _would_ see it.
This would let editors and readers cooperatively
decide what appears on the front page. I've tried
to explain this on Slashcode a few times, so if you
want a better explanation, you can search my posts
there or contact me.
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For everyone who thought the current Slashdot system is just
to damn easy to understand, there's this feature:)
I'm not necessarily opposed to this one... needs to be
thoroughly tested tho... and we don't have the time. Would
be diff monkeys make be interested in this one. Personally
I think its overkill unless we implement some sort of story
rating system... and that is a huge project well beyond the
scope of this bug report (and in fact mentioned in others ;)
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I personally don't see this related to a "story rating
system" at all. A story might be very good in its own
right, and probably deserving of a high rating, but if its
not about something I'm interested in then I probably
don't want to see it.
If slash adds story rating at some point, the homepage
prefs (as described here) could be extended to take
them into account. But I think you can implement one
without the other.