Utility of Popular Discussion

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November 21, 2012
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This was the list of Popular Discussions on the right sidebar of the main page on this forum some minutes ago:

Shouldn't such lists be restricted to discussions appearing in the specific forum one is visiting? I do not have and I do not use Flash, so the first item is completely wasted on me. And it doesn't amuse me to follow a link such as the last one and find that it is a four post thread in a forum I never visit...

Also, I think it cannot be all that difficult to prevent the listing of closed/archived threads. It's not fun to follow -for example- the link to the Spam report thread [6] only to find that it has been closed for months.

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Claudio GonzálezAuthor

Legend

I find it very difficult to believe that the Spam report thread [6] and the Are these still User to User forums? threads are much visited nowadays. However, they are in the list of Popular Discussion of this forum, while I do not see a link to the present Spam thread in its main page. Seems peculiar to me.

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Anonymous

Claudio González wrote:
I find it very difficult to believe that the Spam report thread [6] and the Are these still User to User forums? threads are much visited nowadays. However, they are in the list of Popular Discussion of this forum, while I do not see a link to the present Spam thread in its main page. Seems peculiar to me.

I had reported that (about the links) myself here back in September 2012 and nobody replied back...

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Dave Merchant

Legend

The widget IS restricted to the forum you're in, and any sub-forums it may have. The threads in your screenshot are in Forum Comments, even though some of them are talking about other topics they're the threads which have seen the most page views in recent days.

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

Legend

Dave Merchant wrote:
The widget IS restricted to the forum you're in, and any sub-forums it may have. The threads in your screenshot are in Forum Comments, even though some of them are talking about other topics they're the threads which have seen the most page views in recent days.

I was wrong in assuming without checking that the Flash for Xbox thread was in the Flash forum, but the Upgrade query thread appearing in the screenshot of my opening message definitely wasn't and isn't in this forum or a sub-forum of it (as far as I know, this forum has no sub-forums):

And, while the Spam report thread [6] has been appearing in the list everyday for quite a long time, I find it hard to believe that it is being visited every day by a large number of participants, for it's on the 5th page of the list of topics. Same with the CS4 thread, on page 32...

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

After seeing your thread, I began paying attention to the subject, but only tested in the forums, that I primarily hang out in. In all of my observed cases, the "Popular Discussions" lists were applicable to those fourms, as closely, as I could tell. Wonder if that works, as I had assumed they would, but then in some forums, that list is populated with threads from elsewhere? I only surveyed a small sub-set of the forums, those probably could be typified as being similar: the various Premiere Forums, the Encore Forum, and the Photoshop Forum.

I am sure that someone can comment specifically what you are seeing.

Hunt

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

I thought that the Popular Discussions WAS limited to the forum, where one is. Maybe that was just an erroneous and unfounded assumption on my part?

I agree that the list should be restricted TO the open forum.

Hunt

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