That is great feedback guys. I have been looking at it from the standpoint of how many article posts are there on a page compared to normal discussion posts. That is pretty comparable to before WALL-E actually, so in my mind we were doing OK. However the speed at how fast things move off the first page is something I did not consider. So I went back to page 5. That page covered about 2 1/2 days. Page 1 right now covers about 9 hours I think. So that is a huge difference in how fast the board is moving. On the other hand 2 1/2 days for a page is probably too slow.
Maybe about 1 page per day would be about right? What say ye?
Some ideas to slow things down:
1) Have WALL-E post multiple stories to the same topic. Maybe all of the al.com articles go to one topic, espn to another, cbs to another, etc.
2) Maybe have a morning edition, a lunch edition, an afternoon edition, and an evening edition. Everything that comes out from say midnight to say 10 AM goes to a one new topic each day. Then maybe 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM goes into the lunch edition thread, etc. This could be separated out by al.com, espn, etc too.
Any other ideas?
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About 1.5 days per page, I think. That'll give everyone a chance to see and comment on every thread. Otherwise it just zooms past. As it is now, it reminds me of my days at WABB Radio in Mobile. Back in the 60s music came on the Top 40 and left, all in 3 weeks. It was too fast, but that's why so much of that music is still here. We never had time to tire of it, as had happened before the late 60s.
2. Better to be more selective than load up a thread with non-related stories. The idea is to initiate discussion, which won't work well if discussion is going in different directions.
3. Not sure I followed the time thingy. But most football news is released after practice/interviews, then late night/early AM. General stories come all day long.
Enough. Football time. Thanks for doing this stuff, SC.
Yeah, let's try 1.5 a day and if it's still too fast we can cut back, again.
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