How To Feature Journals?
 

There are two spots on the main ChocoJournal page to feature 10 journals on each spot. Which method do you think is the best to feature the most interesting/popular journals?

Previously we have tried: Warks (a formula based on comments/post time/total views), View Count, Comment Count and Props.

Did you like any of the methods we used previously? Do you have any better ideas?

Just make it random. Anything else encourages whoring, and produces an unrealistic result.

Yes, thank you. I agree. Instead of having the random journal link we had at the bottom, just make the whole list random entries. Not only pulling them from the latest entries, but any entry from any journal, except for the private ones. And show the latest commented ones.

I kind of like most recent comments, that way you can see where everyone is reading and what people are saying. Makes things easier to keep up with.

But thats just me.

I would say everything else should be randomized, mostly because we're all likely to compete otherwise.

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Edit : Of course I am not gonna spam further by adding more off-topic posts about adsense, but adding the code for adsense would take, hmm... 4 minutes and a half, and would save us the next chocosponsor. What the fuck are we waiting for

I sure hope you have a good explanation for that post!

Edit: actually, I wouldn't even mind if we filled up that props/warks box with adsense ads instead.

How did you completely miss the adsense thread bobo just made?

The props/warks thing was stupid, but most recent comments was helpful. It made it very easy to track whatever journal drama was going on.

I also like the idea of listing them by the most recent comments. I sort of don't like the idea of featuring the journals that are automatically going to be the most popular (see: Sass' journal) because what's the point? Everyone already knows which journals get the most action.

The recent comments thing is good. Warks/props are bad. Maybe for the second set of ten, you could put the least viewed journal entries created over the past two or three days. That would be good right.

Least viewed is actually a great idea. Since there are folks out there talking to themselves most of the time, it would give them an audience.

I thought so too, but apparently bobo didn't :(

An addendum to that idea, would be to of course not include the ten most recent journal entries, for obvious reasons.

Go for it.