New news system for home page and points for likes

[Michael Pietroforte Keymaster Post count: 1793Member Points: 22,427Rank: Level 1]

I now added the new news system. From now on only news that received at least one like will appear on the homepage. All news updates appear on the news page and on the site-wide activity page.

At the moment, my own updates automatically appear on the homepage even if they haven’t been liked. The reason is that I don’t want to like my own news posts. Once more people participate, I will remove this configuration.

Please don’t like your own news updates. This would make this new feature useless.

I also changed the member points settings. You can now get 10 points if someone likes your content (before 3 points). I hope this will encourage members to post updates of better quality. Note that you can only get points if a member likes your content. If a guest (not logged in) likes content, no points are assigned to the content owner.

I will now be a little less restrictive with news updates. In particular, I won’t delete links to how-to posts. However, links to how-to posts have little chance to appear on the homepage and you usually won’t get like points. For the time-being, I will keep the setting that deducts 10 points if I have to delete an update.

In general, I suggest to only link to news and content that you really like and that you would also post on your social media channels. I also think that direct links to the news sources are better than links to a news site. Only if a news site has some valuable additional information that can’t be found on the original source, I would link to the news site.

You also have a better chance to get a like, if you share your opinion about the news. You can add text in the form field field above the link field before you post the news.

I am not 100% happy with the new system. However, let’s give it a try and see how it works. Please let me know what you think and if you have suggestions.

[Paolo Maffezzoli Participant Post count: 369Member Points: 34,750Rank: Level 1]

@Michael, I think there is something wrong because the latest news appears automatically on the homepage even if they haven’t any Like.

[Michael Pietroforte Keymaster Post count: 1793Member Points: 22,427Rank: Level 1]

Yes, I know. I am currently testing this which is why I didn’t post it yet in the forum. The news quality has been quite good recently (mostly because of your efforts). I will still only share selected news on social media and I usually also like those updates on 4sysops.

[Paolo Maffezzoli Participant Post count: 369Member Points: 34,750Rank: Level 1]

ok, thanks. Good to know, nothing to be worried, only a work in progress.

[Michael Pietroforte Keymaster Post count: 1793Member Points: 22,427Rank: Level 1]

Thanks for the hint, anyway! I am fighting with so many plugin bugs all the time that it is not unlikely that something is not working properly.

[Luc Fullenwarth Moderator Post count: 298Member Points: 16,006Rank: Level 1]

Just to mention that view points for blogs and wiki doesn’t work…

Only points for forum views are working.

[Michael Pietroforte Keymaster Post count: 1793Member Points: 22,427Rank: Level 1]

Hmm what do you mean with “view points”? And are you talking about author and member points?

[Paolo Maffezzoli Participant Post count: 369Member Points: 34,750Rank: Level 1]

A point assigned for viewing a blog post.

[Luc Fullenwarth Moderator Post count: 298Member Points: 16,006Rank: Level 1]

Glad it works for you 🙂

[Paolo Maffezzoli Participant Post count: 369Member Points: 34,750Rank: Level 1]

Hi Luc, I have the same issue, no points added if I visit a blog post or an article page.

[Luc Fullenwarth Moderator Post count: 298Member Points: 16,006Rank: Level 1]

Ah ok then I’m not alone 🙂

[Luc Fullenwarth Moderator Post count: 298Member Points: 16,006Rank: Level 1]

Yes Michael, I am talking about member points.

https://4sysops.com/the-4sysops-member-point-system/

I made a test for each of the 3 categories (Wiki, Forum and Blog).

Just made another test :

I went to this page:

https://4sysops.com/forums/topic/best-ideas-for-tracking-down-a-random-users-account-constant-lockout-problem/

Then I went to the Site Wide Activity page :

https://4sysops.com/activity/

On the left I can see my member point history but no new points for viewing the forum topic.

Then I went to a blog page :

https://4sysops.com/archives/activate-a-vm-using-automatic-virtual-machine-activation-avma/

Still nothing on the Site Wide Activity page.

Then went to a wiki page :

Group Policy differences between Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Pro

Oups! Still nothing on the Site Wide Activity page…

I went to my profile page, to the Point section, and the information is the same.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 4 weeks ago by  Luc Fullenwarth.

[Michael Pietroforte Keymaster Post count: 1793Member Points: 22,427Rank: Level 1]

Luc, you are right. I think I fixed this now. Thanks a lot for the hint!

[Luc Fullenwarth Moderator Post count: 298Member Points: 16,006Rank: Level 1]

I made a test but I got only a point for the Wiki article and not for the blog post and for the admin forum question.
But the wiki worked once for me in a former test…
Is there another parameter in the equation? Does it count only the first time we watch a page?

[Paolo Maffezzoli Participant Post count: 369Member Points: 34,750Rank: Level 1]

It should be working today. I have a point awarded visiting a blog post never visited before.

[Michael Pietroforte Keymaster Post count: 1793Member Points: 22,427Rank: Level 1]

The limit was set to 1 point per article, independently if it was a wiki doc, blog post or forum topic. I admit that the corresponding explanation in the point system guide was a bit a misleading. I changed that now and I also increased the limit to 3 per day.

Thanks for the hint!

[Paolo Maffezzoli Participant Post count: 369Member Points: 34,750Rank: Level 1]

Thank you for the clarification.

[Luc Fullenwarth Moderator Post count: 298Member Points: 16,006Rank: Level 1]

Ok I understand better now 🙂

Thanks Michael!

[Author]

Posts