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The Popular Threads section of the Home Page sucks. Here's the TL;DR why, the arguments will be explained below:
It promotes Spam
This is a pain in the ass. The thing just takes random Posts that have received a (Sometimes even no) View in the last Hour and calls them Trending. This might work on Sites with Millions of continuously active Users and thousands of Threads being posted a day but not for this. Always lovely when we have one of those spam attacks and all I need to do is load the thread once to flag it before noticing the one view I did on it caused it to be pushed to the front page.
Great. I did that.
Half the Links don't even work
This is something that has recently stopped happening but there kept on being threads like this:
that got pushed to the Popular List, clicking on the link would give you a ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Sidenote how come all of these get sent there with 0 Replies and 0 Views. Great popularity I see there.
TL;DR the feature needs ironing and a better definition on what constitutes "popular".
The Popular Threads section of the Home Page sucks. Here's the TL;DR why, the arguments will be explained below:
- Half the time Links don't even work
- It promotes Spam
It promotes Spam
This is a pain in the ass. The thing just takes random Posts that have received a (Sometimes even no) View in the last Hour and calls them Trending. This might work on Sites with Millions of continuously active Users and thousands of Threads being posted a day but not for this. Always lovely when we have one of those spam attacks and all I need to do is load the thread once to flag it before noticing the one view I did on it caused it to be pushed to the front page.
Great. I did that.
Half the Links don't even work
This is something that has recently stopped happening but there kept on being threads like this:
that got pushed to the Popular List, clicking on the link would give you a ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Sidenote how come all of these get sent there with 0 Replies and 0 Views. Great popularity I see there.
TL;DR the feature needs ironing and a better definition on what constitutes "popular".
