No. of Recommendations: 17
When I look at the Best Of for the month, all I see now are article-length posts predominated by looooong quotations from other sources. That’s not why I come to Shrewd’m tbh. I come here to read the thoughts of the contributors here. Not so much to sift through looooong quotes from other publications. Also, I really miss the old-school simplicity of ranking Best Of by total number of recs. It’s just too often that posts are listed high up in the Best Of at, say, 50% when only 2 people have read the post and 1 has rec’d it. I know the intention is to nudge people towards reading less-frequented boards, but I’m not sure this is the best way to accomplish that goal.
I have replaced those features today. The Best Of page now has an option to the right showing cappuccino that be toggled between grey/orange, and it saves the preferenced against your account. Long-term readers will often want to view Best Of with the article-length mode turned on as post volume grows over time. (This option also only appears if there are at enough article length posts to fill at least 40% of the table.)
I also allowed Rec/Rec% to be toggled in My Profile (or clicking your underlined name top-right of page). All done.
- Manlobbi
