Comments on: Javablogs is annoying

By: Gerald Bauer

Gerald Bauer — Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:20:33 +0000

> Idiots who post multiple stories on multiple blogs
> to hog the frontpage: Namely, Gerald Bauer.

Sorry for dropping by so late. Hani, can you point me to a story that I cross-posted on my blogs to “hog the JavaBlogs frontpage”.

PS: Hani, if you’re looking for a job at Sun may I suggest trying a more professional way to prove your loyality than bashing Sun critics.

By: Alan Green

Alan Green — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:36:50 +0000

Mr Mike Wall:

Some good points there.

Part of the problem is the tension between people that post to their blog because they want an entry in their blog and people that post to their blog because they want an entry in JavaBlogs. As Charles has pointed out -http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/archives/001423.html – JavaBlogs is turning blogging into something much more like Usenet.

On a related note, I’ve been embarrassed more than once by posting some inane little thing to my blog, that ended up wasting the time of hundreds of people, because it caught the “ViewPopularBlogs” wave early in the morning.

By: Alan Green

Alan Green — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:25:46 +0000

I bought a new cat and it rocks!

By: Charles Miller

Charles Miller — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:51:25 +0000

I’m obviously going to have to start posting pictures of my cat to Javablogs.

By: Toby Hede

Toby Hede — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:23:41 +0000

The posts I hate the most are the ones that say things like: ‘I bought a new computer and it rocks!’ or ‘My cat’s breath smells like catfood’. Some things should not be posted to JavaBlogs.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:22:04 +0000

“Enough idiotic items have risen to the top of the list to demonstrate that there`s absolutely no quality filter going on.” – Oh geeze! you could have at least waited another day before posting this.. yesterday was my first ever time at the top ~ way to go giving a guy a complex Hani.

I agree with most of your quick fixes though, it`d be nice if javablogs honoured the freeroller categories too. It seems to prefer grabbing all posts rather than just the Java ones. Javablogs not adding old posts to the frontpage, just because a sites been resubmitted is another good one – but I`m sure many of these are by accident due to frustrated and impatient posters confused by the caching and timezone differences. BTW Just how did “profile of a Java idiot” get pinged to the top yesterday?
Short of some of the magic bayzian categorisation going on at bad magic number, I`m not sure how we can filter the posts effectively..

Wouldn`t a moderated system leave Matt, Mike & Hani hogging the top spot every day? We could have recommended authors and allow bloggers to assign several meta data tags to their blog entry and allow readers to subscribe to their topics of interest. Then again that in itself isnt a guarantee of interest, and I`m sure I`ve just talked myself out of any more readers banging on about vulgar client-side concerns. I quite like the randomness of the javablogs as is, gives me a feel for the current Java Gamut and every now and again I hit upon interesting off-the-wall ideas this way..

Otherwise aren`t we talking about an organised forum, plenty of free bandwidth over on Java.net guys! phew – talk about dying on your feet.. painfully quiet.. almost too quiet..

By: jwzrd

jwzrd — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:00:47 +0000

Wtf are you doing at javablogs anyway? You all care about what Gerald Bauer has to say?

By: Mike Wall

Mike Wall — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:48:31 +0000

I see three types of blog entries. One is the insightful post about how a problem was solved. One is the lay-on the line, this is how I feel about an issue type of entry. The last is a post with links the author feels may be of use to others. I think all 3 types are necessary. But the bloggers that consistently annoy me seem to only post type 3, clearly intent on getting traffic and wasting our time. So when you get the blog metadata working, add a “jacka$$ salepitch blog” category.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:45:20 +0000

The best javablogs stories are those that just provide links to other stories linked-to by javablogs.

Also, I love the feature of the “for more than the 3 allowed entries click here” entry that essentially takes up a 4th space.

By: Marcus Brito

Marcus Brito — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:33:23 +0000

You know, using a limit of 3 frontpage stories *per user* instead of per blog would just make Mr. GB register multiple accounts. Unfortunately, that kind of stupidity is just too much for machines to deal with.

By: norman richards

norman richards — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:31:09 +0000

Posting a midnight only gets you part of the way. You get the early hits to give you an edge up on popular blogs for the day, but on a busy morning you’ll be pushed out of the recent entries pretty fast. I think the misleading / controversial title entry posted in the early morning is the most effective way to get attention. I’ve been doing a lot of entries in the afternoon at work and those entries get a lot fewer views than the ones I do late at night or in the morning.

I agree 100% on the rolling 24 hour thing. Who knows how many interesting 11:30pm entries I’ve missed. I’d also like to see a popular posts of the last week/month.