So, Ficly community…..
Liverpool or Man U?

I C WHAT U DID THAR

West Bromwich Albion.

What about Arsenal? How do you fancy their chances?

is this because my story had a massive conversation now its featured for a while lol

…or you could just be a drop dead bloody awesome stud that writes cool stories, eh? ;-)

if it were only based on the awesome story, but alas, the sad truth is..

i don’t like sports, well not traditional, paint your chest and scream from the stands ones. So, I don’t care about your teams! But now you can chastise me for not loving sports.

haha.
No, dont worry mr horror

wow, I’m amazed at how much my “Read, Reply, Ficly or Die!” motto is still used by so many people in their stories and bios.

Krulter. We get struck off the register if we don’t mention it in every 10 stories. he,he lol

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Didn’t care so much for the story, but the comments were pretty cool.

And Krulter: Read, Reply, Ficly or Die! is just made of awesomeness. It’s brief, truthful, and it rhymes!

wait, so for featured

all you have to do

is get lots of comments?

I’m sorry, but I don’t understand why it matters if it’s featured. Wouldn’t you just want constructive comments?

I agree. Being featured is good if all the comments are there because they thought you had a really great story, but being featured because of a slew of comments that are not in any way related to the story… It’s just not kosher.

And how.

Hey I didn’t say if it matered whether or not you get featured.
But if you’re an attention whore… here ya go

I can see how the

attention whores

might find this use-

ful information.

me tooooo

Rachel, you’re so pure :-) The rest of us… c’mon… attention whores one and all ;-)

this is a whore of a story. i love it

this is a whore of a story. i love it

this is a whore of a story. i love it

woah triple post
second time
damn computer

Abstract Rorschach-xaagá gáihí.

Congrats on being featured!

(By the way, my previous comment was in a South American language called Pirahã. It meant “Abstract Rorschach exists there”.)

Well, would you look at that? Muffy got featured! This must be a popular, worthwhile story! Who’d have thought?

Chudley Cannons.

Also – informative, but like Rachel, I prefer helpful comments. :) Though I’m a sheep today, apparently – baaaa!

You’re going to go make me rewrite the algorithm for the featured story… thanks. ;)

Hahaha

My suggestion for the featured story algorithm is as follows:

A = Number Of Comments
B = Number Of Days Since Creation
C = Average Pencil-Rating
D = Number Of Views

((A / B) + (D / B) + ((C * D) / B)) = Story Popularity Value

Only consider stories published within the last week. The story with the highest SPV is the Featured story!

Okay, fine, this algorithm is fail. I just pulled it out of my … thin air. Got anything better?

You’ll have to factor in rating, views, comments, times rated, and days since creation. Factoring in the number of ratings, comments, or views in the last 24 hours can lead to a ficly getting stuck longer than necessary in the “Featured” status, because being featured automatically brings you more viewers, ratings, and comments.

I totally disagree. I think we should a very old, bearded man (preferably one that lives in the sky) to pass judgement over all stories and pick the featured ones. That is THE ONLY WAY. Oh, and you can send him notes and gifts. That can smooth the road to featured-ness. Yes, I think that is a brilliant plan.

Perhaps we could have a “recommend for featured” button on stories? Then, to prevent people from recommending a million stories a day, everyone could recommend one story per day. How does that sound?

(Meanwhile, congrats on getting “featured,” StudMuffin.)

Giving a story 5 pencils is basically recommending it to be featured – as are posting comments on it or viewing it. I need to tweak the algorithm a bit, but Eloquent Mess isn’t too far off – it does look at views, ratings and comments when picking, I’m just not saying how it uses them to decide. ;)

I think there should be a consistent frequency: I’ve seen some features last for more than a week, and others for only a few hours. Maybe a new one should be chosen daily, or weekly, or whatever. Some fixed amount of time. Give people time to see it, but not so much time that it grows stale.

congratz on featured! you really are an expert

This is ridiculous people.
Comment on someone elses story!
This should not be featured!

mark it mature then
it wont show up on the front page

That’s an idea. Oh, wait, you wanted me to comment on a different story…

Fail.

Okay, what if the system only counts the first comment from each user? That way, a small handful of people couldn’t have an off-topic discussion in the comments and drive a story to featured.