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Questionable Promotions!

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I notice we have a dearth of activity on this site.

With a relatively small number of active users, perhaps we can add a tab to the "Questions" Page. We have Activity, Age, Score as sorting algorithms. How about a "Lottery" tab?

Once a day, randomize the questions we have, and use that as the order for the "lottery" tab. Leave it up for the day; I think we can get new answers, or at least votes on questions.

I visit the site daily, as I did for SE, and (as my profile indicates) I pretty much exclusively answer questions. On SE, I seldom look past the "new questions" or "active questions". With not many users, those are dead zones; so perhaps in lieu of new questions, we can focus on "filling in" the content already created; particularly questions and answers without votes.

It would be nice to have something to do, here, and I think there are just not many questions (and I seldom have any...)

EDIT: I like Mark Baker's suggestion, instead of a randomized list, a tab of "On This Day" previous questions asked on the same calendar day (Jan 10). That would still amount to about a page's worth of questions, and could be constructed on the fly pretty easily, and would ensure all questions be shown within a year. (Well, Feb 29 gets the shaft).

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This is technically difficult to do without being horribly slow. I can do you a random sort easily enough, but the "keep it around for a day" is where it becomes more challenging.

As a compromise, how would it be if the lottery page was only one page? That is, there's one page, and there's only 25 questions on that page - there's no page 2, 3, or 366. That limitation should allow me to keep the order around without making re-applying it later a slow operation.


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Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 4 years ago

That sounds good -- how often are people going to read more than 25 questions at a time anyway?

Lauren Ipsum‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I'll second this!

Amadeus‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I will second this too! I just realized we can't upvote comments. Or flag them (I don't want to flag any, I'm just sayin').

called2voyage‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I would check that page. Sounds interesting.

Mark Baker‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I'm noticing that the questions on the Lottery page seem to be highly weighted towards recent questions. Often, some of the same questions appear on the lottery page and the front page. Since the purpose is to dredge up older questions that might need a review, is there a way to weight its question selection more evenly, or even to weight it more towards the past?

ArtOfCode‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Sure, @MarkBaker - it's just a setting that I can tweak. It's currently 0.002 as the default, so we'll try halving it to 0.001 and see what happens.